US Patent Issued to AO Kaspersky Lab on Oct. 6 for "Detecting a harmful file using a database of vulnerable drivers" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,013, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AO Kaspersky Lab (Moscow).

"Detecting a harmful file using a database of vulnerable drivers" was invented by Dmitry A. Kondratyev (Moscow) and Evgeny I. Lopatin (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a harmful file includes detecting activity of a driver in an operating system by intercepting an Application Programming Interface (API) request from the driver to an application. The detected activity of the driver is analyzed to determine if the driver is dangerous. A search for a file that is linked to the application and that uses the driver is performed, in response to det...