US Patent Issued to F5 on Dec. 30 for "Methods for improving web scanner accuracy and devices thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,180, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Methods for improving web scanner accuracy and devices thereof" was invented by Ron Talmor (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ido Breger (Tel Aviv, Israel), Barak Amar (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Guy Nir (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that assists with improving web scanner accuracy includes receiving a sitemap document associated with a webpage from an application security manager apparatus. The received sitemap document associated with the webpage is scanned. Next, one or more vulnerabilities are identified in...