US Patent Issued to Dynatrace on Aug. 25 for "Automated identification of vulnerable software components" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,926, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dynatrace LLC (Boston).

"Automated identification of vulnerable software components" was invented by Stefan Achleitner (Vienna), Simon Ammer (Linz, Austria) and Benjamin Buzek (Kematen an der Ybbs, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is presented for identifying vulnerable software from a computer system. The method includes: identifying name of a given software component in a vulnerability database by analyzing text of an entry in the vulnerability database using a large language model, where entries in the vulnerability database have known vulnerabilities; ide...