ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,113, issued on May 26, was assigned to Two Six Labs LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Expression analysis for preventing cyberattacks" was invented by Ian T. Blumenfeld (Arlington, Va.) and David Renardy (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing a regular expression for vulnerability to ReDoS attacks includes receiving a regular expression for evaluating a string defined by ordered set of characters from an alphanumeric input device, and evaluating the regular expression for determining if a parsing operation of the string according to the regular expression results in a disproportionate resource consumption. The eval...