US Patent Issued to Sophos on July 29 for "Secure hashing of large data files to verify file identity" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,605, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Secure hashing of large data files to verify file identity" was invented by James Christopher Carpenter (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure hashing of large files to verify file identity. In some implementations, a method includes determining a size of a particular file received by an endpoint device, and searching for a record indexed in a data structure based on the size. In response to finding the record, a sequence of multiple records is accessed in the data structure. For each record of the sequence, a particular data portion...