US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Jan. 27 for "Detecting backdoors in binary software code" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,288, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Detecting backdoors in binary software code" was invented by Neil David Jonathan Duggan (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vincenzo Kazimierz Marcovecchio (Toronto) and Adam John Boulton (Wirral, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to detect backdoors in binary software code. In some aspects, a method comprises: obtaining, by a server, binary software code corresponding to source code; generating, by the server, a backdoor abstraction of the binary software code; and generating, by the server, a backdoor risk as...