US Patent Issued to Daniele Cono D'Elia, PRISMA on March 17 for "Methods and systems for analyzing environment-sensitive malware with coverage-guided fuzzing" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,267, issued on March 17, was assigned to Daniele Cono D'Elia (Teggiano, Italy) and PRISMA S.R.L. (Rome).

"Methods and systems for analyzing environment-sensitive malware with coverage-guided fuzzing" was invented by Daniele Cono D'Elia (Teggiano, Italy) and Nicola Bottura (Gonzaga, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns methods and systems for analyzing a software program as a potential environment-sensitive malware sample. The methods and systems described here may comprise monitoring access to environmental information, altering according to an execution policy the contents of environmental information...