ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,771, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Learned control flow monitoring and enforcement of unobserved transitions" was invented by Andrew Zawadowskiy (Hollis, N.H.), Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Oleg Bessonov (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems described herein relate to monitoring executions of computer instructions on computing devices based on learning and generating a control flow directed graph. The techniques and systems include determining a learned control flow diagram for a process on a computing system and monitoring execution of ...