ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,802, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ISLAND TECHNOLOGY INC. (Dallas).
"Kernel-based protection of computer processes" was invented by Yoav Orot (Somerville, Mass.), Gal Kaplan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Roi Leibovich (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Dan Amiga (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer security apparatus including a kernel driver configured to be executed by a computer in a kernel mode and to thereupon perform protecting a process of a first computer software application executed by the computer, where the protecting is performed in accordance with a protection policy, receiving an instruction from the process ...