ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,478, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Malware monitoring and detection" was invented by Gregory Robert Johnston (Mountain View, Calif.), Ishaan Sang (Mountain View, Calif.), Kunal Sean Munshani (Fremont, Calif.), Adam Gee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Guilherme Menezes (San Jose, Calif.), Kelvin Kwan (San Mateo, Calif.), Shivanshu Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Muraliraja Muniraju (Fremont, Calif.) and Aaron Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A data management system (DMS) may maintain a malware threat feed that includes up...