ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,851, issued on Aug. 12.

"System and method for detecting malicious attempts to discover vulnerabilities in a web application" was invented by Ankur Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Venkata Surya Narayana raju Datla (West Godavari, India), Anjana P Pai (Bengaluru, India), Premkumar Sj (Tamil Nadu, India) and Manikam Muthiah (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments provide systems and methods for identifying malicious attempts to detect vulnerabilities in an application. At least one processor may determine a mean and a standard variation of character counts of each of a plurality of characters from a plurality o...