ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,488, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Identifying security-relevant commits through architectural context" was invented by Antonino Sabetta (Mouans-Sartoux, France) and Rocio Cabrera Lozoya (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security-relevant commits are important to identify because they may provide an opportunity for a malicious party to identify vulnerabilities in the software that a malicious party can take advantage of. Methods and apparatuses are described herein combine the commit with information related to the architectural context in which those changes appear to predict the lik...