ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,350, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Software security checking device" was invented by Dominik Germek (Berlin) and Maria Irina Nicolae (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software security checking device. The device includes: a rule database with rules, each associated with at least one of a plurality of software types and contains a criterion in terms of software feature(s), the rule stating that a piece of software that fulfills the criterion is malicious; an input interface configured to receive a specification of a piece of software; processor(s) configured to ascerta...