US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "Risk mitigation techniques based on software bill of materials" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,731, issued on Feb. 10.

"Risk mitigation techniques based on software bill of materials" was invented by Chockalingam Ramiah (Cary, N.C.), John William Garrett (Apex, N.C.) and Arvind Vasudev Chari (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for reducing a risk exposure related to a software application. The techniques may comprise receiving an indication of a software application, identifying a number of components associated with that software application as well as a number of vulnerability scores corresponding to the number of components, determining, based on the number of vulnerability scores, a ris...