US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Oct. 21 for "Typo squatting, dependency confusion, and brandjacking detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,347, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Typo squatting, dependency confusion, and brandjacking detection" was invented by Alexander Hoole (Vancouver, Canada) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software build environment is scanned for one or more potentially malicious code paths. In response to scanning the software build environment for the one or more potentially malicious code paths, one or more potentially malicious code paths are identified. The identified one or more potentially malicious code paths comprise at least one of: a typo squat code path, a dependenc...