ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,135, issued on May 13, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"K-anonymous vulnerability detection" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland) and Paolo Antinori (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "K-anonymous vulnerability detection is disclosed. Data descriptive of a container image including at least one container layer having a layer identifier is received. The layer identifier is encoded to produce an encoded layer identifier. A first portion of the layer identifier is transmitted to a vulnerability registry server. One or more vulnerability identifiers are received from the vulnerability server. The vulnerabili...