US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 18 for "Source code vulnerability detection and repair through machine learning" (Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,245, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Source code vulnerability detection and repair through machine learning" was invented by Aaron Yue-Chiu Chan (Provo, Utah), Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Yevhen Mohylevskyy (Redmond, Wash.), Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural classifier model is used to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the source code predicted by a deep learning code generation model having been trained on source code possibly containing security bugs. Upon the classifie...