US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on June 24 for "Techniques for generating unique identifiers for tracking process activity" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,786, issued on June 24, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating unique identifiers for tracking process activity" was invented by Martin Kelly (Bothell, Wash.), Marco Vedovati (Albino, Italy), Igor Polevoy (San Jose, Calif.), Milos Petrbok (Redmond, Wash.) and Christopher White (Avon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes retrieving, in a kernel space of an operating system executing on a computing device, a first value from a first clock source, retrieving, in a user space of the operating system executing on the computing device, a second value from a second clock source, gen...