US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Feb. 17 for "Performing SAST on second version of source code after SAST has been performed on first version" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,863, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Performing SAST on second version of source code after SAST has been performed on first version" was invented by Caleb Andrew Voss (Doraville, Ga.), Trang Indie To (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Franciscus Henricus Arnoldus van Buul (Montfoort, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second version of source code of a program is analyzed in relation to a first version of the source code to identify: which alarm instructions of the second version require analysis to identify second security vulnerabilities in the second version, and which first security vulne...