UT-Battelle Assigned Patent

UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN, has been assigned a patent (9,081,960) developed by Shue, Craig A., Worcester, MA, Lamb, Logan M., and Paul, Nathanael R., Knoxville, TN, for a “architecture for removable media USB-ARM.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage device is coupled to a computing system comprising an operating system and application software. Access to the storage device is blocked by a kernel filter driver, except exclusive access is granted to a first anti-virus engine. The first anti-virus engine is directed to scan the storage device for malicious software and report results. Exclusive access may be granted to one or more other anti-virus engines and they may be directed to scan the storage device and report results. Approval of all or a portion of the information on the storage device is based on the results from the first anti-virus engine and the other anti-virus engines. The storage device is presented to the operating system and access is granted to the approved information. The operating system may be a Microsoft Windows operating system. The kernel filter driver and usage of anti-virus engines may be configurable by a user.“

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2013 (13/870,743).