ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,433, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONICWALL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time prevention of malicious content via dynamic analysis" was invented by Senthil Cheetancheri (Fremont, Calif.), Alex Dubrovsky (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sachin Holagi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is related to methods and apparatus used to for preventing malicious content from reaching a destination via a dynamic analysis engine may operate in real-time when packetized data is received. Data packets sent from a source computer may be received and be forwarded to an analysis computer that may monitor actions performed ...