US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Tracking of files required for running malware processes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,433, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Tracking of files required for running malware processes" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes operating in a computing system are tracked. The tracking data includes or identified child processes, parent processes, and/or files associated with operation of the processes. When a process is determined to be a malware process, protective operations are performed. Prote...