US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Automated synthesis of reference policies for runtime microservice protection" (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,493, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated synthesis of reference policies for runtime microservice protection" was invented by Frederico Araujo (White Plains, N.Y.), William Blair (Boston) and Teryl Paul Taylor (Danbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for automated security policy synthesis and use in a container environment. In this approach, a binary analysis of a program associated with a container image is carried out within a binary analysis platform. During the binary analysis, the program is micro-executed di...