ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,079, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bugcrowd Inc. (San Francisco).
"Portal for submitting security vulnerabilities via third-party websites" was invented by Damien Michael Radford (San Francisco) and Casey John Ellis (Lafayette, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system allows users to submit security vulnerabilities for systems associated with websites. The system receives, a request for submission of a security vulnerability associated with a website. The request is received via a widget displayed on a webpage of a website. A user interface is configured for receiving details of the security vulnerability. The user interfa...