ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,332, issued on April 29, was assigned to CFD Research Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Cybersecurity systems and methods for protecting, detecting, and remediating critical application security attacks" was invented by Brian Gene Palmer (Huntsville, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes systems and methods for providing cybersecurity to web-enabled applications for protection of critical software and host systems. The present invention is operable to build a Hidden Markov model of an application using automated analysis of code and documentation in order to characterize potential state and state transitions. The...