ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,094, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cyber security testing for incorrectly authorized programs" was invented by Michael Page Kasper (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Scott Woolley (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Joshua David Steen (Fishkill, N.Y.), Roan Dawkins (Staatsburg, N.Y.) and Eric Rosenfeld (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying authorized job step programs. The process identifies a plurality of job step programs. It then identifies authorized program facility (APF) authorized programs from the ...