ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,222, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to AO Kaspersky Lab (Moscow).

"System and method for detecting cyclic activity in an event flow for dynamic application analysis" was invented by Anton A. Kivva (Moscow) and Vitaly V. Butuzov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting cyclic activity in an event stream. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, creating a buffer, determining a threshold for indicating a beginning of a cycle, processing each event by filling the buffer with the event, determining a number of unique events in the buffer, when the number reaches a predetermined s...