US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Oct. 21 for "Malware deterrence using computer environment indicators" (Singaporean, Indian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,334, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Malware deterrence using computer environment indicators" was invented by Nera Pershing Schwartz (Singapore), Harish Tammaji Kulkarni (Singapore), Kumudini Choyal (Tung Chung, Hong Kong), Mahesh Ramesh Bane (Mumbai, India) and Vaibhav Shankar Tambe (Dombiwali, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inoculating a computer network against malware is described. Specifically, environmental indicators used by anti-analysis and target filtering mechanisms of a malware program may be determined based on analysis within a virtual or physical sandbox ...