US Patent Issued to Sophos on Aug. 26 for "Variable timeouts between operating modes of a computer for detecting malicious software" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,990, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Variable timeouts between operating modes of a computer for detecting malicious software" was invented by Steven John Braggs (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting malicious activity of a computing device comprises detecting, by a software driver executing within a kernel mode of an operating system being executed by the computing device, an operation performed at the computing device; intercepting the operation; receiving, by a security application executing within a user mode of the operating system, a request from the softwa...