US Patent Issued to Check Point Software Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Full disk encryption anti-malware scan" (Israeli, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,470, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Full disk encryption anti-malware scan" was invented by Lars Fredrik Gustavsson (Stockholm), Doron Zuckerman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yuri Staloverov (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device, system, and method are provided for leveraging the Full Disk Encryption (FDE) pre-boot environment to conduct anti-malware scans during computer startup, enhancing security by identifying and mitigating malware threats before the main operating system is loaded. To do so, a processor circuitry of the computer device iden...