US Patent Issued to Material Security on Jan. 27 for "Defanging malicious electronic files based on trusted user reporting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,833, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Material Security Inc. (San Francisco).

"Defanging malicious electronic files based on trusted user reporting" was invented by Ryan M. Noon (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhishek Agrawal (Redwood City, Calif.) and Christopher J. Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for determining that a first electronic communication, received in a first private repository of a user, has been identified (e.g., flagged) as including a threat, and determining a probability that the first electronic communication includes the threat. In response to determining that th...