US Patent Issued to SAP on Oct. 14 for "Collaborative software application static vulnerability detection" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,723, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Collaborative software application static vulnerability detection" was invented by Feras Al-Kassar (Antibes, France), Luca Compagna (La Roquette-sur-Siagne, France) and Davide Balzarotti (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for collaborative detection of software application static vulnerabilities are disclosed. Print statements are injected into the source code for a software application for each of its inputs and outputs. Vulnerability findings are obtained from two or more static analysis tools run against the modified source code. A determi...