ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,679, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KPMG LLP (New York).

"System and method for detecting system executable abnormalities" was invented by David Nides (Chicago), Zachariah Sheldon Harris (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Andrea Sancho Silgado (Chicago) and Matthew Lewis Seyer (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to computer-implemented systems and methods that perform forensic investigations including detecting system executable abnormalities. An embodiment of the present invention may be applied to various operating systems, such as Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Operating systems may represent a collection o...