US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 30 for "Selective malware scanning of files on virtualized snapshots" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,430, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Selective malware scanning of files on virtualized snapshots" was invented by Mandar Nanivadekar (Pune, India), Leena Shuklendu Soman (Pune, India) and Boris Weissman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VCI snapshot associated with a version of a malware infected VCI is scanned for malware. The malware scanning includes selecting a first file of the VCI snapshot and determining that a file, in a previously scanned VCI snapshot associated with another version of the malware infected VCI, which corresponds to the selected first file has a clean r...