US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 17 for "Identifying vulnerabilities in binary files using a code signature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,282, issued on March 17, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identifying vulnerabilities in binary files using a code signature" was invented by Yang Ji (San Jose, Calif.), Dongrui Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wenjun Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying vulnerabilities in binary files using a code signature are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, a process, and/or a computer program product for identifying vulnerabilities in binary files using a code signature includes collecting a plurality of binary files associated with a vulnerability (e.g., a known v...