US Patent Issued to SAP on Oct. 14 for "Measuring confounding effects in machine learning-based vulnerability discovery" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,726, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Measuring confounding effects in machine learning-based vulnerability discovery" was invented by Erik Imgrund (Heidelberg, Germany), Tom Ganz (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Martin Haerterich (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include reception of a plurality of code samples and corresponding ground truth classifications, generation, for each of the plurality code samples, of a plurality of perturbed code samples, generation of first probabilities for each of the plurality of code samples and the perturbed code samples using a first class...