US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 7 for "Dynamic method invocation for zero-day exploits" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,882, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic method invocation for zero-day exploits" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas) and Galen Lansbury (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, techniques for dynamic method invocation for zero-day exploits may include locating, by a security agent, an entry point to a method of an online application; injecting, by the security agent, instrumentation code into the entry point of the method; receiving, at the security agent, a security policy regarding the method that dynamically sets a parameter ...