ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,616, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Detecting malicious obfuscation in a SQL statement based on an effect and/or processed version thereof" was invented by Michael Makhlevich (Haifa, Israel), Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Fady Naser El Deen (Daliyat El Carmel, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of detecting malicious obfuscation in a SQL statement based at least in part on an effect and/or processed version of the SQL statement. In a first example, a raw version of a SQL statement is compared to a processed ver...