US Patent Issued to Splunk on Aug. 26 for "Managing security of a software development life cycle" (Maine, Massachusetts, Delaware, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,005, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Managing security of a software development life cycle" was invented by Todd Leonard DeCapua (Wilmington, Del.), Christopher Lance Duffey (Houston), Neil Douglas Erkkila (Cherry Valley, Mass.) and Jeremy Robert Hicks (Ellsworth, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data are mapped from multiple tools to a common information model during the development life cycle of a software application. The common information model normalizes the data, enabling the data to be correlated even when development tasks are performed by separate entities using different tools. Using t...