ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,549, issued on April 22, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for malware threat research" was invented by Melvyn Morris (Turnditch, Great Britain), Paul Stubbs (Wyboston, Great Britain), Markus Hartwig (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Darren Harter (Hucclecote, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of classifying a computer object as malware includes receiving at a base computer data about a computer object from each of plural remote computers on which the object or similar objects are stored. The data about the computer object received from the plural computers ...