ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,973, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Build process security framework" was invented by Trong Nhan Mai (Brisbane, Australia), Behnaz Hassanshahi (Brisbane, Australia) and Padmanabhan Krishnan (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving multiple security framework requirements, mapping the security framework requirements to a predicate, mapping the predicate to a system-specific implementation, evaluating, using a runtime system, the target system by analyzing a multitude of build files using the system-specific implementation, and presenting a...