US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on Oct. 6 for "Security privilege escalation exploit detection and mitigation" (Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,566, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Security privilege escalation exploit detection and mitigation" was invented by Andrew Sandoval (San Antonio) and Eric Klonowski (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for monitoring the security privileges of a process. In aspects, when a process is created, the corresponding process security token and privilege information is detected and recorded. At subsequent "checkpoints," the security token is evaluated to determine whether the security token has been replaced, or whether new or...