ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,957, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"System and method for recent file malware scanning" was invented by Mohamed Adly Amer Elgaafary (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Mantas Briliauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for recent file malware scanning are provided herein. In some embodiments, a security system may include a processor programmed to download one or more files; filter, by a first driver, the one or more downloaded files using a security zone identifier; scan, by the first driver, the filtered subset of one or more files for malware; store, by a second dri...