ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,768, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cloud Linux Software Inc. (Estero, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for tracking execution flows for automated malware detection" was invented by Igor Seletskiy (Palo Alto, Calif.), Serhii Brazhnyk (Odessa, Ukraine) and Arsenii Pastushenko (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for detecting malware in scripts. A method includes: monitoring, at a first computing device, an execution flow of at least one portion of a script; computing a fingerprint that represents the execution flow; determining whether the fingerprint is present in a local fingerprin...