US Patent Issued to Cyemptive Technologies on April 8 for "Detection of and protection from malware and steganography" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,375, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cyemptive Technologies Inc. (Woodinville, Wash.).

"Detection of and protection from malware and steganography" was invented by Stewart P. MacLeod (Woodinville, Wash.) and Robert Pike (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for real-time detection of and protection from steganography in a kernel mode comprises detecting transmission of a file via a firewall, an operating system, or an e-mail system. A size of the file is determined. From a file system, a stored filesize of the file is retrieved. The determined size of the file is compared to the stored filesize of the file. R...