US Patent Issued to Sophos on Aug. 11 for "Scanning for malware based on process identification" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,352, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Scanning for malware based on process identification" was invented by Steven J Braggs (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to scan for malware on devices based on process identification. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes intercepting an event initiated by a particular process that executes on a system, which pauses the event. It is determined whether to perform a security scan for the event based on a comparison of a type of the event with stored event classification information associated...