US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Hybrid scanning using deferral learning" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,891, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hybrid scanning using deferral learning" was invented by Michael James Morais (New York), Marion Marschalek (Portand, Ore.), Wei Ding (Vancouver, Canada), Jeffrey Earl Bickford (Thornton, Colo.) and Baris Coskun (Glen Rock, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing malware scanning for a service provider network are disclosed. In response to accessing one or more files, file attributes may be determined. Confidence values may be generated based on the file attributes and may be used to select a scan operation. Such scan operation...