ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,603, issued on July 29, was assigned to Secure Computing LLC (Forest Park, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for recursive descent parsing" was invented by Karen Heart (Forest Park, Ill.) and Alexander Rasin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for parsing text are described herein. A method of securing executable files is performed at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stories one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The computing device obtains source text that comprises a disassembled executable file and identifies, via a general pa...