ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,042, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Using threat intelligence to manage software fixes" was invented by Michael F. Angelo (Houston), Alexander Michael Hoole (Vancouver BC, Canada) and Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defect in the code of a software program is identified. An initial ranking for the defect in the code of the software program is determined. One or more network websites are crawled to identify information associated with the defect in the code of the software program. The information associated with the defect in the defect in the code of the software ...