ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,659, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for identifying potential data exfiltration attacks in at least one software package" was invented by Paulius Duplys (Markgroeningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying potential data exfiltration attacks in at least one software package. The method includes: tracking at least one change to the software package; and detecting a manipulation suitable for data exfiltration on the changed software package."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/469,672.

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