ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,610, issued on March 4, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method to improve anti-malware scan responsiveness and effectiveness using user symptoms feedback" was invented by Ritesh Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and German Lancioni (Cordoba, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for improving anti-malware scan responsiveness and effectiveness using user symptoms feedback are disclosed. An example method includes detecting a performance issue on a computing device, presenting a user interface on a display of the computing device requesting user feedback regarding th...