ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,537, issued on July 1, was assigned to Code42 Software Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Determining trusted file awareness via loosely connected events and file attributes" was invented by Bradley David Bebchuk (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Elizabeth Verity Hammon Macgregor (Denver), Rohit Kumar Bagda (St. Paul, Minn.), Shane Zako (Minneapolis), Trevor Michael Tungseth (New Hope, Minn.), Nicholas Alexander Winninger (Minneapolis), Erik Allan Hagen (Minneapolis) and Eric Tracy Christensen (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which monitor for file system ele...