US Patent Issued to Black Duck Software on Sept. 2 for "Correlating open source component matching results using different scanning techniques" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,015, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Black Duck Software Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Correlating open source component matching results using different scanning techniques" was invented by Douglas Albert Brown (Danvers, Mass.), Damon Alexander Weinstein (Arlington, Mass.) and Jagat Prakashchandra Parekh (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device receives a request to analyze the file hierarchy comprising the plurality of components and sends respective commands to a plurality of matching services. The processing device further receives respective individual results from the plurality of matching services, ea...