ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,445, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Selective passage of software packages, based on signed software bill of materials (SBOM)" was invented by David Meibusch (Brisbane City, Australia) and Christian Rudolf Hoermann (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selective passage of software packages to a deployment tenancy, based on a signed software bill of materials (SBOM), are described. A SBOM, which is generated for a first software package, is received, wherein the first software package is built from a source code. An analysis is performed on (i) the SBO...