ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,431, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure material movement to prevent malware propagation" was invented by Sri Harsha Varada (Vizianagaram, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sri Srikanth Magapu (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for preventing malware propagation. The embodiment may include identifying a malware scan report of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device within an automated material handling (AMH) en...