ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,397, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wiz Inc. (New York).
"Techniques for code fingerprinting" was invented by Eshel Yaron (Amsterdam), Barak Bercovitz (Even-Yehuda, Israel) and Tomer Schwartz (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for code fingerprinting. A method includes scanning a code repository including software components by executing fingerprinting code on the code repository in order to generate statistics vectors for the software components. The fingerprinting code includes instructions for performing a text search to identify instances of patterns in the code repository and to generate the...