ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,375, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Detecting anomalies in code commits" was invented by Neil David Jonathan Duggan (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Vincenzo Kazimierz Marcovecchio (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to detect anomalies in source code. In some aspects, a method comprises: obtaining, by a server, one or more attribute values associated with one or more code commits of source code; and generating, by the server and based on the one or more attribute values, an anomaly report indicating a risk level of the source code."

The patent w...