US Patent Issued to Rubrik on Sept. 2 for "Malware protection for virtual machines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,061, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Malware protection for virtual machines" was invented by Abhay Mitra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vijay Karthik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vivek Sanjay Jain (Palo Alto, Calif.), Avishek Ganguli (San Mateo, Calif.), Arohi Kumar (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kushaagra Goyal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Christopher Wong (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method at a data management system comprises: receiving, at a storage appliance from a server hosting a virtual machine, a write made to the virtual machine; computing, at the storage applian...