ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,753, issued on July 22, was assigned to SunStone Information Defense Inc. (Jamestown, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for detecting a presence of a malicious application" was invented by David K. Ford (Jamestown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting a presence of a malicious application are disclosed. In an example, a method includes storing information to a data structure as a predicted response from a client device. The information is indicative of graphically rendered text or images at the client device corresponding to transactional information and presentation information of a website...