US Patent Issued to Endor Labs on July 15 for "Identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities in third-party code" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,142, issued on July 15, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities in third-party code" was invented by Henrik Plate (Valbonne, France), Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexandre Wilhelm (Kilauea, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable media, method, and server for detecting and addressing vulnerabilities are described. For example, a server receives a security advisory of a vulnerability of a function in a third-party library, accesses a version control system of the third-party library to identify fix commits that address the...