US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "False positive vulnerability detection using neural transformers" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,719, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"False positive vulnerability detection using neural transformers" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Matthew Glenn Jin (Seattle), Anant Girish Kharkar (Huntersville, N.C.), Xiaoyu Liu (Sammamish, Wash.), Xin Shi (Kirkland, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A false positive vulnerability system detects whether a software vulnerability identified by a static code vulnerability analyzer is a true vulnerability or a false positive. The sy...