US Patent Issued to Sophos on April 14 for "Use of an application controller to monitor and control software file and application environments" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,474, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Use of an application controller to monitor and control software file and application environments" was invented by Andrew J. Thomas (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a framework for an extensible, file-based security system is described for determining an appropriate application, application environment, and/or access or security control measure based at least in part on a file's reputation."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/906,646.

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