ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,759, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AO Kaspersky Lab (Moscow).

"System and method of anti-virus scanning of objects on a mobile device" was invented by Victor V. Yablokov (Moscow) and Konstantin M. Filatov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for anti-virus scanning of objects on a mobile device. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises: receiving, by a security module, a command from a protection module of a third-party application to perform an anti-virus scan, when a mobile security application is installed or pre-installed, when the mobile security application is not activated, a...