ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,804, issued on June 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Managing implementation of application-code scanning processes" was invented by Jiun-Cheng Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Harish Santhanagopal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing the implementation of application-code scanning processes are disclosed. A system scans application code by analyzing metadata associated with the application code to identify a set of data needed to scan the application code with a scanning application. Based on the information obtained from the application metadata, the system identi...