ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,837, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application security context from traces and snapshots" was invented by Ashutosh Kulshreshtha (Cupertino, Calif.), Walter T. Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), Oliver Kempe (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Aristeidis Prokopios Iliopoulos (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for securing an application includes determining processing information associated with the application, determining an application dependency map associated with the application at least in part based on the processing information, and determining a security ...