ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,329, issued on June 10, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Protecting serverless applications" was invented by Avraham Shulman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ory Segal (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shaked Yosef Zin (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for protecting a serverless application, the system including: (a) a serverless application firewall configured to inspect input of the serverless function so as to ascertain whether the input contains malicious, suspicious or abnormal data; and (b) a behavioral protection engine configured to monitor behaviors and actions of the serverl...