ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,904, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Endor Labs Inc (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Vulnerability analysis using pre-computed component reachability information for software components" was invented by Anand Ashok Sawant (Davis, Calif.), Georgios Gousios (Delft, Netherlands) and Varun Badhwar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for performing vulnerability analysis based on pre-computed reachability information of software components. A system may determine reachable software components that are reachable by use of the first software component in a software project, the reachable software components in...