ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,008, issued on June 17, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Emulation-based malware detection" was invented by Gabriel Cirlig (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An executable program compiled for a first execution environment is obtained. The executable program is processed by an emulation function of a second execution environment to create an execution profile for the executable program. The emulation function of the second execution environment is configured to emulate an execution of the executable program and to replace an application programming interface (API) function call within the executable program ...