ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,543, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sysdig Inc. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic instrumentation to capture cleartext from transformed communications" was invented by Gianluca Borello (Davis, Calif.) and Loris Degioanni (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for dynamically instrumenting code to capture cleartext from transformed communications are provided. In one technique, an operating system (OS) mechanism receives an OS call. The OS mechanism determines whether the OS call is of a particular type. In response to determining that the OS call is of the particular type, a certain location within executable code of a un...