ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,497, issued on April 8, was assigned to HashiCorp Inc. (San Francisco).
"Monitoring code provenance" was invented by Prakash Linga (San Jose, Calif.), Ajay K. Arora (Redwood City, Calif.) and Vladimir Buzuev (Castro Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method of operation may include determining one or more of a file type and a code segment accessed during a code access event, identifying code origin information appended to the code segment during previous code access events, appending an updated code access location to the code segment identifying the current code access event and a current code location, and ap...