US Patent Issued to Black Duck Software on March 18 for "Verification of serverless applications using fuzzing techniques" (California, Georgia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,081, issued on March 18, was assigned to Black Duck Software Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Verification of serverless applications using fuzzing techniques" was invented by David Autrey Bohannon (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Ksenia A. Peguero (Herndon, Va.) and Benjamin D. Sedat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of verifying an application includes downloading source code for a first function exposed by the application and parsing the source code to determine an input object of the first function. The method also includes injecting a first fuzzing payload into the input object to generate a test object, invoking the first fun...