ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,395, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Automatically fixing a corrupted file requested by a guest on a host machine" was invented by Giuseppe Scrivano (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an operating system can receive, from a guest, a request for the content of a file stored on a computing device. The operating system and the guest can both be executing on the computing device. In response to receiving the request, the operating system can execute a validation process to validate an integrity of the file. In response to determining that the validation process failed, the operating sy...