US Patent Issued to Trend Micro on Sept. 22 for "Scanning of files in a customer account of a cloud service for cybersecurity" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,518, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Scanning of files in a customer account of a cloud service for cybersecurity" was invented by Brendan M. Johnson (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud computing infrastructure hosts a web service with customer accounts. In a customer account, files of the customer account are listed in an index. Files indicated in the index are arranged in groups, with files in each group being scanned using scanning serverless functions in the customer account. The files in the customer account include a compressed tar archive of a software container. Member files o...