US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 19 for "Privilege metric for evaluating the security of a library" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,671, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Privilege metric for evaluating the security of a library" was invented by Nikolaos Vasilakis (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privilege metric application quantifies a privilege reduction for a subject software module MS. Target critical resources Mt accessible by the subject module are identified. Permissions P(MS, Mt) for the subject module to access each of the target critical resources as a result of the privilege reduction are determined. Default library permissions Pbase(MS, Mt) without the privilege reduction ...