US Patent Issued to Sophos on July 21 for "Malicious application detection" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,646, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Malicious application detection" was invented by Shankar Jayaraman (Bangalore, India), Rahul Pandey (Abingdon, Great Britain), Santosh Subramanya (Bangalore, India), Dhwanit Shah (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Guy Roberts (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for methods network activity. The methods include receiving at an interface connection data associated with a request from a first device to download an application from a source, downloading the application to a second device based on the request, and executing, using...