US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on April 21 for "Determining a security score in binary software code" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,482, issued on April 21, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Determining a security score in binary software code" was invented by Adam John Boulton (Wirral, Great Britain), William James McCourt (West Lothian, Great Britain), Paul Compton Hirst (Tiverton, Great Britain) and Benjamin John Godwood (Chipping Norton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to determine a security score of a binary software code. In some aspects, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving a binary software code; inspecting the binary software code to determine at least one Common V...