US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Dec. 23 for "Event and rule-based dynamic security test system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,764, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Event and rule-based dynamic security test system" was invented by Caleb Walch (Minneapolis) and Eric Brandel (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides for performing website anomaly tests by automatically checking whether a website is compromised by malicious code. A system can test dynamic behavior of the website indicating a functional user flow through the website. A set of rules can be applied against a log of the behavior and static code of the website to identify potential compromises. A first rule can be satisfied ba...