US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Vulnerability analysis of a computer driver" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,138, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Vulnerability analysis of a computer driver" was invented by Raghav Pande (Bellevue, Wash.), Jordan Josef Geurten (Redmond, Wash.) and Danut Antoche-Albisor (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for analyzing a program to be executed on a computer to detect vulnerability for malicious attacks using the program. One method includes an operation for performing dynamic vulnerability detection of a driver when the driver is loaded in a computing system. The dynamic vulnerability det...