ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,901, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Darktrace Holdings Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method for cyber threat risk analysis and mitigation in development environments" was invented by John Anthony Boyer (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a cyber security appliance incorporating data from a source code repository, hosted by a software development environment, to identify cyber threats related to source code being stored and developed in that source code repository is provided. The method comprises: receiving, at one or more modules of the cyber security appliance, data indicating a network ent...