ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,213, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detection and mitigation plan for the external threats on 5G network/devices while using network functions virtualization (NFV)" was invented by Mainak Roy (Bangalore, India) and Navya Valliyodan (Kannur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving a request to scan a file, storing the file, performing a vulnerability scan on the file, based on an outcome of the vulnerability scan, making a copy of the file, scanning the copy of the file, when the scanning identifies an attack pattern, applying a rule concerning the attack ...