ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,170, issued on June 24, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Mitigating malware in media" was invented by Cameron Byrne (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for neutralizing malicious malware embedded in a media item being sent to a user equipment (UE) are discussed herein. A network device may receive (e.g., intercept) a medial file in transit via a wireless communication network being sent to a UE. The media file may include some type of perceptible content (e.g., audio, video, image data, etc.) as well as malware embedded in the media file. The network device may generate a transcoded media file base...