US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 17 for "Detecting security issues in forked projects" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,860, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. Inc. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Detecting security issues in forked projects" was invented by Huseyn Huseynov (Columbia, Md.), Benjamin Roytenberg (Baltimore) and Joseph Aurelio (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security tool is provided to check for security issues with a progression candidate version of code. The security tool identifies a progressed version of code that addresses a documented security issue that was present in a prior version of code and has a same ancestor version of code as the progression candidate version of code. Based on a diffe...