US Patent Issued to Avecto on June 23 for "Protecting a computer device from escalation of privilege attacks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,271, issued on June 23, was assigned to Avecto Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Protecting a computer device from escalation of privilege attacks" was invented by John Goodridge (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Thomas Couser (Lancashire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device can receive a notification that a process has interacted with the operating system to perform a predetermined operation on the at least one computing device. In response to the notification, the computing device can capture a current access token from the process. The computing device can perform a comparison of the current access token c...