ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,588, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software bill of materials and vulnerability management via deep packet inspection" was invented by Aveek Kumar Das (Berkeley, Calif.), Dylan Stewart Spagnuolo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sultanbek Omurzakov (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gong Cheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.), Jianlin Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Xu Zou (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software bill of materials (SBOM) and vulnerability management system ("system") disclosed herein extracts software component-related identifiers for Internet of Things (IoT)...