US Patent Issued to DELTA ELECTRONICS on Feb. 17 for "Whitelisting method for blocking script-based malware" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,831, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Whitelisting method for blocking script-based malware" was invented by Yi-Hui Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Kun-Ying Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chia-Lin Liang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Lap-Chung Lam (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzi-Cker Chiueh (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A whitelisting method for blocking script-based malware includes steps of: checking a command line of a process to confirm a first interception point that the process launches a startup script file; checking whether the startup script file in a whitelist at the first interception point; det...