US Patent Issued to CrowdStrike on Oct. 27 for "Source code similarity" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,456, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Source code similarity" was invented by Michael Avraham Brautbar (Wayland, Mass.) and Manu Nandan (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated source code similarity greatly improves computer functioning. Any source code file is evaluated with respect to publicly-available open source code. If the source code file is similar to the publicly-available open source code, then a computer system may be approved or authorized to perform any hardware/software operations associated with the source code file. Should, however, the source code file be diss...