ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,377, issued on April 8, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for detecting malware attacks" was invented by Prateeksha Varshney (Bangalore, India), Siddhartha Nandi (Bangalore, India) and Jayanta Basak (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computing device, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for detecting malware attacks. In one example, an agent implemented in an operating system detects an overwrite in which an original data component is overwritten with a new data component. The agent computes a plurality of features associated with the overwrite, the plurality of fe...