ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,702, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identifying and eradicating the source of a malware attack" was invented by Rohit Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mudit Malpani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anshul Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Gaurav Maheshwari (Bangalore, India), Siddharth Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Tyler Vu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A system supporting malware detection may obtain event data such as risk scores corresponding to events associated with a set of computing entities. Using the event data, the syst...