US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 12 for "Instructions to process files in virtual machines" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,959, issued on May 12, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Instructions to process files in virtual machines" was invented by James Edwin Garnett Wright (Cambridge, Great Britain), Ratnesh Kumar Pandey (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Jonathan Mansergh (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to encrypt a source file that has been identified as potentially malicious, place the encrypted file in a location accessible to a virtual machine, provide, to the virtual machine, infor...