ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,657, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Vector variation driven malware corruption detection" was invented by Muneem Shahriar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mesfin Dema (Allen, Texas), Arunkumar Gururajan (Sammamish, Wash.), Phani Srikanth Bhavani Sankar (Telangana, India), Jian Jian (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yogita Verma (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for the detection of data integrity anomalies indicative of malware for a datastore of an organization. To identify an anomaly in a file, a portion of a file is identified to be used in a vector c...