ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,239, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Scanning a backup for vulnerabilities" was invented by Nagapramod Mandagere (Los Altos, Calif.), Karandeep Singh Chawla (Santa Clara, Calif.), Virupaksha Kanjilal (Baltimore) and Nilesh Pathak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request associated with identifying a backup snapshot to restore among a plurality of backup snapshots is received. At least a first scanned backup snapshot of the plurality of backup snapshots was scanned for one or more vulnerabilities. In response to the request associated with identifying the backup snapshot to r...