ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,113, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computer security using zero-trust principles and artificial intelligence for source code" was invented by Stanley Lee (Dublin, Calif.), Michelle Chance (Austin, Texas) and Dimitry Shvartsman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer system security is improved by implementing zero-trust principles for management of source codes in a software development lifecycle. In some embodiments, a source code may be processed with a natural language processor to attribute the source code to its particular developer. Further, a machine learning algorithm may be appli...