ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,431, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Injection attack sensor with syntax attack detection template" was invented by Cedric Hebert (Mouans Sartoux, France), Thomas Barber (Stutensee, Germany) and Suv Sanjit Patnaik (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tainting engine can work in conjunction with a syntax attack detection template to identify when a threat actor attempts a malicious attack in a cloud application scenario. Non-intrusive instrumentation can be used to provide detection of an attempted attack regardless of whether the cloud application is vulnerable to such attacks. Detection of...