US Patent Issued to SONICWALL on Aug. 25 for "Detection of exploitative program code" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,914, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONICWALL INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Detection of exploitative program code" was invented by Soumyadipta Das (Bangalore, India), Sai Ganachari (Bangalore, India), Yao He (San Jose, Calif.) and Aleksandr Dubrovsky (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to monitoring internal process memory of a computer at a time with program code executes. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure monitor the operation of program code with the intent of detecting whether received program inputs may exploit vulnerabilities that may exist in the prog...