US Patent Issued to Socket on June 23 for "Precomputing reachability to identify exploitable vulnerabilities" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,289, issued on June 23, was assigned to Socket Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Precomputing reachability to identify exploitable vulnerabilities" was invented by Feross Hassan Aboukhadijeh (San Francisco), Benjamin Barslev Nielsen (Aarhus, Denmark), Mikola Christopher Lysenko (Midland, Mich.) and Martin Torp (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining reachability of vulnerable code. In some embodiments, a tool receives an alert of a vulnerability within an application, and determines a set of dependent packages by referencing a knowledge graph. For each vulnerable node of the de...