ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,570, issued on July 29, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Artificial intelligence based security requirements identification and testing" was invented by Chase Alan Sylvester (Prosper, Texas) and Ganesh Devarajan (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The proposed systems and methods apply natural language processing to identify implicit security requirements flowing from input text narratively describing desired features for a software project. These systems and methods can identify hidden security requirements that may not be readily apparent from the features described in the input text. For ...