ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,279, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Binarly Inc (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Cryptography bill of materials (CBOM) generation from binary executables" was invented by Alexander Matrosov (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sam Lloyd Thomas (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Yegor Vasilenko (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software package is received so that functions within the software package that implement or use cryptographic primitives can be identified. Further, a set of calls with each of the identified functions are determined. A call site analysis is performed based on the set of calls to determine cryptographic a...