ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,256, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Vulnerability analysis for software products" was invented by Nandini Arulmani (Salem, India), Radha Bhavya Sri Sai Menta (Kuppam, India), Deeksha Srivastava (Bengaluru, India) and Palani Raja Zeavelou (Puducherry, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to analyze software code of a software product to identify application programming interfaces (APIs) of software libraries used in the software code of the software product, and to determine whether any of the identified APIs used in the software code of t...