US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 30 for "Dynamic security service extension based on software bill of materials" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,445, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic security service extension based on software bill of materials" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for dynamic service extension to provide risk mitigation upon detecting a threat. In embodiments, such techniques may be performed by a service provider platform and may comprise receiving information about a security threat, identifying one or more components susceptible to the security t...