US Patent Issued to SOPHOS on July 7 for "Restricted execution mode for network-accessible devices" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,869, issued on July 7, was assigned to SOPHOS Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Restricted execution mode for network-accessible devices" was invented by Craig Robert Jones (Carmarthen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects related to methods, systems, and computer readable media for restricting processes being executed on a user device. A method can include, for example, receiving an indication of a security threat to a user device associated with a user, identifying a first plurality of processes being executed on the user device, identifying a second plurality of trusted processes from the first plurality of p...