US Patent Issued to RUNSAFE SECURITY on Sept. 15 for "Compile-time native code software bill of material generator" (Alabama, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,476, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RUNSAFE SECURITY INC. (Mclean, Va.).

"Compile-time native code software bill of material generator" was invented by Salim Rolf Blume (Weare, N.H.), Kelli Schwalm (Owens Cross Road, Ala.) and Shane Paulsen Fry (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented is a method for capturing the software bill of material (SBOM) for compiled-code languages (like C or C++), in the absence of a package manager (such as Conan). The method loads a library into the process space of all tools used in the build process (e.g. gcc, Id, as, etc), which allows it to observe all of the files opened by the b...