US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Security vulnerability analysis of code based on machine learning and variable usage" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,262, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Security vulnerability analysis of code based on machine learning and variable usage" was invented by Li Bo Zhang (Beijing), Zhuo Zhao (Beijing), Ming Qian Wang (Beijing) and Jia Ning Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a present invention embodiment, software is analyzed for security vulnerabilities. Information from a security scan of code is analyzed to identify a security issue pertaining to a code portion. A machine learning model determines an initial risk factor score for the security issue based on a history of ...