ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,638, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Security intelligent automation for software development, security, and operations" was invented by Venkata Bhavani Shankar Nag Nemmani (Hyderabad, India) and Naveen Gupta (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for providing a Security Intelligence Automation (SIA) engine. The SIA engine provided herein may include multiple security test plug-ins configured to perform a security assessment on a plurality of Open System Interconnection (OSI) layers of ...