US Patent Issued to McAfee on May 6 for "Methods and apparatus to protect open and closed operating systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,215, issued on May 6, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to protect open and closed operating systems" was invented by Vishnu Varadaraj (Waterloo, Canada), Li Xiao (Kitchener, Canada) and Kathryn Young (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, at least one processor to execute the instructions to, in response to identifying malicious data: a) in response to determining that the at least one processor is controlled by the first operating syst...