US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on June 17 for "Risk assessment based on software bill of materials" (British, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,019, issued on June 17, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Risk assessment based on software bill of materials" 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 identify security risks in software code based on software bill of materials (SBOM). In some aspects, a method includes: obtaining, by a server, software code and a SBOM corresponding to the software code; identifying, by the server and based on the SBOM, a library used by ...