US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Techniques for risk management based on software bill of materials" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,845, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for risk management based on software bill of materials" was invented by Nancy Patricia Cam-Winget (Mountain View, Calif.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Edward Albert Warnicke (Austin, Texas) and Flemming S Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for determining and mitigating a risk to an organization associated with a security threat. In embodiments, such techniques may be performed by an access control device and may comprise receiving information about a security threat, identif...