US Patent Issued to McAfee on Dec. 30 for "Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to improve offloading of malware scans" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,393, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to improve offloading of malware scans" was invented by German Lancioni (San Jose, Calif.), Adrian M. Dunbar (London), Michael Hughes (San Francisco), Cedric Cochin (Portland, Ore.) and Carl David Woodward (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve offloading of malware scans. An example apparatus is to, based on a trigger to perform a scan of a volume of data, estimate a computational burden associated with performing the scan u...