US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Knowledge-based taint policy inference" (Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,134, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Knowledge-based taint policy inference" was invented by Peixuan Li (State College, Pa.), Yingjun Lyu (Los Angeles), Qiang Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Lee Pike (Portland, Ore.), Michael McDougall (Seattle) and Thodoris Sotiropoulos (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security vulnerability analysis may be performed using policy inference. Application code may have operations that are labeled according to the respective functions that they perform. Some operations may be labeled according to a knowledge database of known operations while others may be inferred...