ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,403, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Software vulnerability remediation" was invented by Emil Wareus (Stockholm), Viktor Pettersson (Stockholm) and Carl Ternby (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software is commonly built from a package of software packages, such as open-source packages. A package may require a number of interdependent packages, any one of which may have a security vulnerability. However, the dependencies between packages are often version specific and merely upgrading a package to the newest, or newest non-vulnerable, version may break a dependency and cause the softw...