ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,698, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Code vulnerability detection and validation" was invented by Alexander Jordan (Vienna) and Mahinthan Chandramohan (Brisbane, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of code vulnerability detection includes obtaining a set of patches from at least one code repository for a vulnerability record of a vulnerability of a software component, applying the set of patches to obtain a modified set of code files modified by the set of patches, and inferring a vulnerable code section set according to the modified set of code files. The vulnera...