ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,882, issued on Sept. 8.

"System and method for tainting suspicious process and applying targeted rules thereof" was invented by Rahul Arvind Jadhav (Bangalore, India) and Barun Acharya (Ghaziabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein provide a system and method for tainting suspicious processes and applying targeted rules thereof are provided. The method involves tainting/tagging/marking unknown process and allowing execution of the unknown process, such that on identifying the unknown process, which tries to access a sensitive asset such as raw database tables or unknown process which carries out an operation ...