ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,978, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Directed fuzzing for vulnerability detection" was invented by Tom Ganz (Karlsruhe, Germany), Martin Haerterich (Wiesloch, Germany) and Philipp Rall (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Applications may contain vulnerabilities to attack via malicious inputs. Machine-learning models may be trained to detect these vulnerabilities by accepting source code as input and outputting a probability that each of a set of vulnerabilities exists in the source code. Explanation methods may identify one or more locations within the source code that are likely to caus...