US Patent Issued to Bitdefender IPR Management on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for countering persistent malware" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,073, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Systems and methods for countering persistent malware" was invented by Radu M. Portase (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Gheorghe F. Hajmasan (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Alexandra Hajmasan (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments construct an entity map describing a group of inter-related entities and determine whether a computing device comprises malware according to the respective entity map. The entity map includes worker entities (e.g., processes) and resource entities (e.g., files) accessed by the respective worker entitie...