ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,280, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced agent-based file integrity monitoring" was invented by Rajnish Jain (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for agent-based file integrity monitoring (FIM). A method may include using a FIM daemon in a device's user space that works in concert with sandboxed FIM machine code in the kernel space of the device. The FIM machine code may define event-based triggers for notifying the user space when a file modification occurs in the kernel space, and when the user space detects a reported file modification based on t...