ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,832, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Windows registry injection detection" was invented by Gerald M. Jourdain (Hudson, N.H.) and Ravindra Lingampeth (Solapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes creating a backup of registry files of a system registry, extracting the registry files from the system registry, interrogating the extracted registry files to determine if malware is present in the registry files, comparing the backup with another backup of the registry files to determine if malware is present in the backup, and when malware is determined, by the interrog...