ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,232, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Veracode Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Runtime application monitoring without modifying application program code" was invented by Christien R. Rioux (Somerville, Mass.) and Robert Anthony Layzell (Novato, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To facilitate runtime monitoring and analysis of an application without modifying the actual application code, an agent monitors and analyzes an application through detection and evaluation of invocations of an API of a runtime engine provided for execution of the application. The agent registers to receive events which are generated upon invocation of target...