ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,842, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cloud Linux Software Inc. (Estero, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for deduplicating malware scan attempts in a network" was invented by Igor Seletskiy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Andrey Kucherov (Tula, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for deduplicating malware scan attempts. In one exemplary aspect, a method may include: receiving, from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices in a network, a first hash value of an object and a verdict of a malware scan performed on the object by the first computing device; storing the first hash value a...