ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,975, issued on March 25, was assigned to Virsec Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protecting against memory deserialization attacks" was invented by Satya V. Gupta (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments protect computer applications from memory deserialization attacks. An example embodiment receives a data object at a server hosting a software application. In turn, an aspect of the received data object is compared with a representation of an expected data object. If the comparison identifies a difference between the aspect of the received data object and the representation of the expected data object, a protectio...