ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,258, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sentinel Labs Israel Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for executable code detection, automatic feature extraction and position independent code detection" was invented by Shlomi Salem (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Ronen (Raanana, Israel), Assaf Nativ (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Amit Zohar (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Gal Braun (Ness Ziona, Israel), Pavel Ferencz (Beer Sheva, Israel), Eitan Shterenbaum (Kiryat-Ono, Israel) and Tal Maimon (Rishon LeZiyon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enabling the automatic detection of executable code from a...