ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,120, issued on May 13, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Shaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for preventing hollowing attack" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for detecting and curing a hollowing attack is disclosed herein. The method comprises monitoring real-time process memory parameters of a target process; retrieving real-time process memory parameters of the target process; comparing the real-time process memory parameters of the target process with reference proc...