ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,603, issued on May 6, was assigned to TRACEABLE INC (San Francisco).

"Application security testing based on live traffic" was invented by Inon Shkedy (Berkeley, Calif.), Roshan Piyush (Bengaluru, India), Sanjay Nagaraj (Dublin, Calif.), Satish Kumar Mittal (Bengaluru, India) and Juan Pablo Tosso Alvarez (Santiago, Chile).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Live and legitimate user traffic is used with in depth knowledge of the business logic for an API specification to perform security testing on a set of APIs. The present system intercepts and analyzes application program interface (API) traffic, identifies user session data, and identifi...