US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on June 30 for "Real time application protection system configuration drift categorization and response" (Arizona, Minnesota, Florida, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,712, issued on June 30, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Real time application protection system configuration drift categorization and response" was invented by Matthew Thomas McDonald (Callahan, Fla.), Jeremy W. Long (Herndon, Va.), Mitch Moon (Plymouth, Minn.) and Isaiah Adonu (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for improving real-time application protection (RTAP) systems (e.g., web application firewalls (WAFs), runtime application self-protection (RASP) systems). In particular, a device within a trusted network may monitor or test the configuration settings of the RTA...