ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,877, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"String analysis in a code scanning engine" was invented by Omer Tripp (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for string analysis in a code scanning engine comprises a string analysis rule definition, the string analysis rule definition including a search pattern and a test criterion. At least a portion of a string in a source code file is determined to be a match to the search pattern. The test criterion is evaluated against at least a portion of the string. An indication of a result of the evaluation of the first test criterion is provide...