US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on Nov. 4 for "Namespace mapping to support file hash generation" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,894, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Namespace mapping to support file hash generation" was invented by Marco Vedovati (Albino, Italy) and Martin Kelly (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a file hash using mount namespace data includes identifying, by a user space monitoring application executing in a user space of an operating system, a target application file associated with a target application process executing in the user space of the operating system, wherein the target application process is associated with a first mount namespace, accessing, by the user...