US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Jan. 13 for "Evaluating cryptographic API calls at runtime" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,305, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Evaluating cryptographic API calls at runtime" was invented by Sean James Coffey (Dublin) and Sean Mullan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations include identifying a cryptographic Application Programming Interface (API) call corresponding to a Cryptography Architecture API. A cryptographic security ruleset may be applied to match one or more rules based on attributes of a cryptographic operation identified by the cryptographic API call. The system may perform operations associated with the one or more matched rules. As ...