ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,273, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cloud Linux Software Inc. (Estero, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for removing malicious code from a script without compromising script functionality" was invented by Igor Seletskiy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Roman Gavrilchenko (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for removing malicious code from a script without compromising script functionality. In one aspect, the method includes: identifying, in a script, at least one string corresponding to a malicious pattern; generating an abstract syntax tree (AST) of the script; identifying, in the AST, a parent opera...