US Patent Issued to Endor Labs on April 14 for "Automated back-propagation of a fix using a reproducible build, test, and validation process to create a patched artifact" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,490, issued on April 14, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automated back-propagation of a fix using a reproducible build, test, and validation process to create a patched artifact" was invented by Henrik Plate (Valbonne, France), Sebastian Cai (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dimitrios Styliadis (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexandre Wilhelm (Kilauea, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computing device determines that project code in a development system references an older version of a component in a third-party library, determines that the older version of the component has a vulnerability, determin...