US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Localizing vulnerabilities in source code at a token-level" (Utah, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,510, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Localizing vulnerabilities in source code at a token-level" was invented by Aaron Yue-Chiu Chan (Provo, Utah), Anant Girish Kharkar (Huntersville, N.C.), Yevhen Mohylevskyy (Redmond, Wash.), Kalpathy Sitaraman Sivaraman (Bothell, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vulnerability detection and repair system utilize a classifier model to detect a software vulnerability in a source code snippet and the tokens in the source code snippet attributable ...