US Patent Issued to Halcyon Tech on Dec. 30 for "Ransomware detection using cryptographic API call graph analysis" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,392, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Halcyon Tech Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Ransomware detection using cryptographic API call graph analysis" was invented by Jayson Pryde (Bulacan, Philippines), Seagen Levites (Oregon City, Ore.), Ryan Smith (Austin, Texas) and Jonathan Miller (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent executing on a monitored computing device intercepts runtime execution data associated with a process by utilizing hooks into cryptographic application programming interfaces (APIs). The agent constructs a dynamic execution graph, where each node represents an intercepted cryptographic API call and each edg...