ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,986, issued on June 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Runtime application self-protection" was invented by Sora Bae (Carindale, Australia), Francois Gauthier (Brisbane, Australia) and Rebecca O'Donoghue (Tingalpa, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include collecting, by a software agent connected to a target application, a set of observations of executing the target application while in a logging mode. The set of observations identifies instances of operations of the target application. The method may also include transmitting the set of observations to a security service, a...