ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,201, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Exploit detection in a cloud-based sandbox" was invented by Nirmal Singh Bhary (Chandigarh, India), Tarun Dewan (Punjab, India), Rajdeepsinh Dodia (Chandigarh, India) and Chiragkumar Kantibhai Prajapati (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods include receiving unknown content in a cloud-based sandbox; performing an analysis of the unknown content in the cloud-based sandbox; obtaining events based on the analysis; running one or more exploit detection rules on the events; and providing a score based on a result o...