US Patent Issued to McAfee on Jan. 20 for "Identification of malicious content in operating system clipboard" (Indian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,883, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identification of malicious content in operating system clipboard" was invented by Oliver G. Devane (Upton, Great Britain), Vallabh Chole (Aurangabad, India), Ankit Goel (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Abhishek Karnik (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining first data stored in a clipboard of an operating system, determining second data is stored in the clipboard, performing a comparison of the second data against malicious data, at least in part based on a determination that the first data has changed to the second data, and perfo...