ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,583, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Open source library security rating" was invented by Xun Sun (Shanghai), Huaiyu Yan (Nanjing, China) and Chuyunxiao Zhong (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open source library rating is generated for an open source library based on dependencies of the library, vulnerabilities of the library, an age of the library, a popularity of the library, a history of the library, or any suitable combination thereof. The rating of a specific version of a library may be generated based on a base score for all versions of the library and a version score for the specific ...