ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,762, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Leveraging information gathered using static analysis for remediating detected issues in a monitored deployment" was invented by Peter W. O'Hearn (London), Theodore M. Reed (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Yijou Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robert Schoening (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Leveraging information gathered using static analysis for remediating detected issues in a monitored deployment, including: inspecting, using static code analysis, a non-executable representation of an application to identify one or more vulnerabilities in the appli...