ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,866, issued on April 29, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for threat detection based on stack trace and user-mode sensors" was invented by Vladimir Strogov (Singapore), Sergey Ulasen (Singapore), Aliaksei Dodz (Singapore), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for threat detection and analysis. A method includes monitoring at least one thread associated with at least one user process on a computing device. The method further includes detecting specific-system calls associated with at least one user process at ...