ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,367, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Creating a patched artifact by back-propagating a fix using an automated process" 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 server determines that project code in a development system references an older version of a component in a third-party library and that a newer version of the component has a fix commit that addresses a vulnerability in the older version. The system determines ...