ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,682, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adversarial generation of software bill of materials (SBOM) for computing security" was invented by Garrett Prescott Graupmann (Escondido, Calif.), Adam Michael Parsons (Asheville, N.C.), Jacalyn Alice Li (San Diego) and Jyosthna Bikumalla (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adversarial software intelligence document generation. Embodiments include scanning, by a computing device, a software application during execution of the software application on a server that is remote from the computing devi...