US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on July 15 for "Real-time shellcode detection and prevention" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,130, issued on July 15, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time shellcode detection and prevention" was invented by Or Chechik (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Liav Zigelbaum (Herzliya, Israel), Eldar Aharoni (Holon, Israel) and Bar Lahav (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention for protecting a computing device, which includes a processor and a memory and is coupled to a storage device storing a set of one or more files. In embodiments of the present invention, a call to a specified function for exe...