ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,977, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Static analysis correlation scanners" was invented by Rishabh Gupta (San Francisco), Hrushikesh Shrinivas Paralikar (Hayward, Calif.), Ryan Charles Quistorff (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sasha Leila Ronaghi (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-abuse scanning system and method for an application deployment platform is provided. In some examples, when a provider submits a new application package, a scan scheduler periodically polls for and detects the new submission. An anti-abuse scan service parses the installer script to determine dependencies betwe...