US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Instrumenting applications to prevent abuse by privileged users" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,255, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Instrumenting applications to prevent abuse by privileged users" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains data regarding a transaction attempted by a user within an online application that is captured by instrumentation code that is inserted into the online application at runtime, wherein the user has sufficient priv...