US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Protecting software development environments from malicious actors" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,446, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protecting software development environments from malicious actors" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and Jeffrey Allen Tillett (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains transaction data regarding a transaction attempted within a software development environment, wherein the transaction data is captured by instrumentation code inserted into the software development environment at runtime. The device identifie...