ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,442, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Explainable vulnerability detection method and system based on dual-view causal reasoning" was invented by Sicong Cao (Jiangsu, China), Xiaobing Sun (Jiangsu, China), Wei Liu (Jiangsu, China), Xiaoxue Wu (Jiangsu, China), Lili Bo (Jiangsu, China) and Bin Li (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present disclosure are an explainable vulnerability detection method and system based on dual-view causal reasoning. The vulnerability detection method includes: S1, obtaining code samples, where the code samples include a training sample...