ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,405, issued on May 27, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Managing the loading of sensitive modules" was invented by John R. Shaw II (Broomfield, Colo.) and Andrew L. Sandoval (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying highly sensitive modules and taking a remediation or preventative action if such modules are accessed by malicious software. For example, the likelihood that a module is used for an exploit, and is thus sensitive, is categorized as high, medium, or low. The likelihood that a module can be used for an exploit can dictate whether, a...