ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,965, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Malware detection and content item recovery" was invented by Ishita Arora (San Francisco), Anton Mityagin (San Francisco), Ray Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Sam Keller (Millbrae, Calif.) and Stacey Sern (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for malware detection and content item recovery. For example, a content management system can receive information describing changes made to content items stored on a user device. The content management system can analyze the information to de...