US Patent Issued to TYREX US on May 5 for "System and method for decontaminating and certifying external storage devices" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,729, issued on May 5, was assigned to TYREX US (New Rochelle, N.Y.).

"System and method for decontaminating and certifying external storage devices" was invented by Gerard Varjaques (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Christophe Bourel (Clichy, France) and Jean Gatignol (Clichy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a cleaning station configured to decontaminate external storage devices from cybersecurity threats. The cleaning station is configured to scan files in the external storage device using a decontamination means, the decontamination means including one or more anti-virus modules and one or more anti-malware ...