ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,724, issued on May 5, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Scanning of partial downloads" was invented by Abhishek Tripathi (Bangalore, India), Mayur Arvind Bhole (Pune, India), Nithya Nadig Shikarpur (Bangalore, India), Tirumaleswar Reddy Konda (Bangalore, India) and Mayank Bhatnagar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By way of example, a method includes, responsive to a user request to download, from the internet, a downloadable file with executable content, downloading a portion of the downloadable file, wherein the downloadable file is not executable with the portion; after download the portion of the downl...