ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,401, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"On-demand application vulnerability scanning" was invented by Marcin Lewandowski (Cracow, Poland) and Krzysztof Rudek (Nowy Wisnicz, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for identifying and resolving security vulnerabilities in a software application build. This includes identifying a change for a dependency in a software application build based on analyzing a commit to a first repository for the build, storing an entry in a second repository reflecting the change for the depende...