US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 14 for "Software security defect prediction methods and devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,071, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Software security defect prediction methods and devices" was invented by Fei Peng (Beijing, Germany) and Fang Zhao (Beijing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Teachings of the present disclosure include software security flaw prediction methods. An example method includes: scanning a segment of software source code to obtain a quantity of each error-prone mode present; determining a probability of violating each secure programming rule, based on the number of occurrences of each mode; predicting a probability of each security flaw based on the probability of the softw...