Guidance Software Assigned Patent

Guidance Software, Inc., Pasadena, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,442,975) developed by Weber, Dominik, Los Angeles, CA, Garrett, Matthew, Whittier, CA, Teodorescu, Claudiu, and Sharma, Rajesh, Pasadena, CA, for a “systems and methods for processing data stored in data storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method for processing data stored in data storage devices is described. A computing processor acquires blocks of data from a target machine and computes an entropy value associated with each block of the acquired data. The computing processor checks the entropy values of each block to determine whether or not the particular block is deemed to contain useful data, before that block is analyzed.“

The patent application was filed on March 13, 2013 (13/802,419).