ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,830, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting a security bypass through binary code analysis" was invented by Michael Page Kasper (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Bryan Childs (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Joshua David Steen (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting a security bypass through binary code analysis is disclosed, including identifying one or more binary files of an authorized program; determining, based on a static code analysis of the one or more binary files, that the authorized program includes a potential security...