US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 17 for "Systems and processes for creating software bill of materials for large distributed builds" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,020, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and processes for creating software bill of materials for large distributed builds" was invented by Frank Joseph Bussell (Issaquah, Wash.), Henry James Lyons (Seattle), Nicholas Allan Schwerzler (Sammamish, Wash.), Sencer Nuri Yeralan (Seattle), Dale Russel Rolf (Renton, Wash.), Minh Trong Tran (Bellevue, Wash.), David John Janson (Kirkland, Wash.), Thomas George Yaryan (Seattle) and Ian James McCarty (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for generating, modifying and using SBOMs for facilitating risk ...