ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,957, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Invincea Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for control and detection of malicious content using a sandbox environment" was invented by Anup Ghosh (Centreville, Va.), Scott Cosby (Alexandria, Va.), Alan Keister (Oakton, Va.), Benjamin Bryant (Alexandria, Va.) and Stephen Taylor (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process includes code to cause the processor to receive a set of indications of allowed behavior associated with an application. The processor is als...