US Patent Issued to Socket on June 30 for "Automatic test generation for impact of patching software package vulnerabilities" (California, Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,265, issued on June 30, was assigned to Socket Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Automatic test generation for impact of patching software package vulnerabilities" was invented by Mikola Christopher Lysenko (Midland, Mich.), Feross Hassan Aboukhadijeh (San Francisco) and Wenxin Jiang (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application determines versions of a software package, and runs a test having a plurality of components on each version. The application generates a matrix of vectors, each vector corresponding to a given version of the software package and having a results cell for each component of the test, the cell popu...