US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 10 for "Detecting suspicious activation of an application in a computer device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,934, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting suspicious activation of an application in a computer device" was invented by Einav Raizman-Kedar (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Ofer Benyamin Sasson (Ramat Gan, Israel), Nethanella Messer (Kiryat Ata, Israel) and Matan Elbaz Ziv (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based system and method for detecting suspicious activation of an application in a computer device, including: monitoring physical activation events by the computer device; identifying a software activation event in the computer device; determining wheth...