US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Software bill of materials risk assessment based on vulnerability and remediation history" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,299, issued on July 21, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Software bill of materials risk assessment based on vulnerability and remediation history" was invented by Ted Hulick (Pearland, Texas), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and David J. Zacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for analyzing software applications for risk. Data is obtained indicating one or more components of an application and historical data relating to one or more previous versions of the application. The historical data is analyzed to identify one or ...