ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,777, issued on July 14, was assigned to Arms Cyber Defense Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Software defined randomization for the mitigation of unknown vulnerabilities" was invented by Bradley David Potteiger (Baltimore), Timothy Ryan Potteiger (Pasadena, Md.), Michael Charles Bryant (Brentwood, Tenn.) and William Spencer Betts (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to detecting initiation of one or more shared libraries being loaded into a runtime memory of an application. While the one or more shared libraries are b...