ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,905, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting vulnerabilities to fault injection in computer code using machine learning" was invented by Alexander Matrosov (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Christopher Schneider (Fife, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A code analyzer implements machine learning to detect vulnerabilities in computer code. The code analyzer trains a machine learning model using training vectors that characterize vulnerable programming patterns. The code analyzer evaluates a topological representation of the computer code using the machine learning model to identify a potential ...