ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,867, issued on March 3, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Adaptive selection of security scanning in software deployments" was invented by Murali Krishna Segu (Yamare, India), Shobha Rani Jagathpal (Bengaluru, India), Sachin Sundar (Bengaluru, India) and Vinay Prakash (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adaptive selection of security scanning in software deployments are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to dynamically modifying scope based on specific code changes, third party risks and/or architectural changes. By selectively prioritizing ...