ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,965, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Malware scans" was invented by Tobias Edward Sebastian Gray (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ratnesh Kumar Pandey (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprises instructions that when executed cause a processor of an electronic device to: in response to detecting a malware scan trigger associated with a file, determine a combined risk score associated with the file based on metadata of the file and a source of the malware scan trigger, where the source includes a fil...