US Patent Issued to Socket on Nov. 3 for "Airgap architecture for offline automatic patching of software package vulnerabilities" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,692, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Socket Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Airgap architecture for offline automatic patching of software package vulnerabilities" was invented by Mikola Christopher Lysenko (Midland, Mich.) and Feross Hassan Aboukhadijeh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local agent downloads, from a server, to a client device of the user, a plurality of patches, each patch curing a vulnerability in a software package dependency. The agent stores, to a source control repository of the client device, a set of patches from the plurality of patches, the source control repository also including source code of th...