ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,210, issued on April 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Runtime security analytics for serverless workloads" was invented by Akram Sheriff (Newark, Calif.) and Timothy David Keanini (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Runtime security threats are detected and analyzed for serverless functions developed for hybrid clouds or other cloud-based deployment environments. One or more serverless functions may be received and executed within a container instance executing in a controlled and monitored environment. The execution of the serverless functions is monitored, using a monitoring layer in the contr...