ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,716, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Programming code vulnerability remediation" was invented by Malek Ben Salem (Falls Church, Va.), Ganesh Devarajan (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.), John Donovan Delmare Jr. (Gainesville, Va.), Krishna Mohan Dasari (Frisco, Texas), Mario Lauande Lacroix (Toronto), Cristian Daniel Ariza (Lanus, Argentina) and Mohnish Gahlot (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code remediation system accesses a programming code including vulnerabilities such as potential secrets and remediates at least a subset of the potential secrets to generate modified programming co...