ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,271, issued on March 17, was assigned to HANGZHOU EVERGREEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Cross-architecture automatic detection method and system for third-party components and security risks related to firmware in internet of things devices thereof" was invented by Meng Han (Hangzhou, China), Changting Lin (Hangzhou, China), Peng Duan (Hangzhou, China), Melody Xiaoyun Shan (Hangzhou, China), Lei Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Qiang Gong (Hangzhou, China), Binbin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Xu (Hangzhou, China), Jiacheng Xu (Hangzhou, China), Bin Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Weiping Yu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & ...