ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,506, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Creating language independent crypto assets" was invented by Anatoly Koyfman (Kiriat Yam, Israel), Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Eyal Bin (Haifa, Israel) and Omer Yehuda Boehm (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for generating a cryptographic asset bill of materials of a source code. The mechanisms generate flow graph of the source code and execute a parsing and analyzing the source code based on a cryptographic asset knowledge base to identify an initial set of cryptographic artifacts referen...