US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 13 for "Method, device, and computer readable medium for detecting vulnerability in source code" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,131, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method, device, and computer readable medium for detecting vulnerability in source code" was invented by Shinhyung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method including: obtaining source code; extracting value assignment lines by parsing the source code; detecting first lines based on keywords among the value assignment lines; detecting second lines based on credential patterns among the value assignment lines; determining third lines from among the first lines, based on the number of lines that satisfy a ...