US Patent Issued to Stairwell on Oct. 21 for "Evaluating files for malicious and/or suspicious code" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,349, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stairwell Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Evaluating files for malicious and/or suspicious code" was invented by Michael Joseph Wiacek (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for evaluating uploaded files for suspicious code are provided. The method includes to receive a copy of one file from a customer of a software provider, evaluate the copy of the file to determine a likelihood that the copy of the file contains malicious code, generate a report, provide the report to the customer, store the copy of the file and the report in a data store, iter...