US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Using hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) to identify application programming interfaces (API) vulnerabilities" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,060, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) to identify application programming interfaces (API) vulnerabilities" was invented by Oleg Blinder (Haifa, Israel), Omer Yehuda Boehm (Haifa, Israel) and Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to various approaches, includes causing a predetermined HRL agent to perform, in a controlled environment, execution of a first potentially malicious API call against a predetermined API. Performing execution of the first potentia...