US Patent Issued to Black Duck Software on July 14 for "Static analysis of source code for improved web crawling" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,998, issued on July 14, was assigned to Black Duck Software Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Static analysis of source code for improved web crawling" was invented by Christie Aine Stewart (Toronto), Benjamin David Sedat (San Francisco), Simon Goldsmith (Oakland, Calif.), Ksenia Peguero (Herndon, Va.), Mason Lieu (Calgary, Canada) and Wanying Luo (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processing logic (e.g., a web crawler program) receives a server output from a server hosting a web page and downloads content from the server output. The server output can include embedded resources, including source code files. The processing l...