ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,275, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Black Duck Software Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automatically generating models for data flow analysis using machine learning" was invented by Simon Goldsmith (Oakland, Calif.), David Autrey Bohannon (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Zunaira Zaman (Belfast, Great Britain), Zhi Zhang (San Francisco), Songtao Xia (Lynnwood, Wash.), Aleksandar Zeljic (San Francisco) and Tushar Sharma (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a non-transitory computer readable medium includes stored instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to acquire a set of function stubs o...