US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on April 8 for "Identifying computer systems for malware infection mitigation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,376, issued on April 8, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Identifying computer systems for malware infection mitigation" was invented by Xiao-Si Wang (London), Conor Hocking (London) and Bogdan Blaga (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented malware protection method to mitigate malware spread within a set of communicating computer systems from an infected computer system is disclosed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2021, under Application No. 18/259,648.

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