US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on Aug. 25 for "Scanning of application programming interface chains" (Canadian, Philippine, American, Taiwanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,915, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Scanning of application programming interface chains" was invented by Numaan Huq (Toronto), Zhemin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Roel Reyes (Pasig, Philippines), Josiah Hagen (Irving, Texas) and Morton Swimmer (Wedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interactable objects of a virtual world are scanned to determine if they are malicious. A spatial resource identifier (SRI) of an interactable object is received in a virtual reality (VR) interface that is employed by a user to access the virtual world. The interactable object is scanned when it has been rendered and is in ...