US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 25 for "Mitigating vulnerabilities in a software program based on its usage" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,927, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Mitigating vulnerabilities in a software program based on its usage" was invented by Andrea Cosentino (Rome) and Luca Burgazzoli (Piacenza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system can execute a first version of a software program during a time window. While executing the first version of the software program during the time window, the system can generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) for the software program. The SBOM can identify a dependency relied upon by the first version of the software program during the time window. The system c...