US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Jan. 20 for "Generalized dataflow analysis for static application security testing" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,452, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generalized dataflow analysis for static application security testing" was invented by Franciscus Henricus Arnoldus van Buul (Montfoort, Netherlands), Caleb Andrew Voss (Doraville, Ga.) and Trang Indie To (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superlattice corresponding to static application security testing (SAST) of source code specifies lattices respectively corresponding to static analyses performable on the source code. Each lattice is specified by all possible lattice elements of the lattice and an operator indicating how two lattice ...