ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,947, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Trend Micro Inc. (Tokyo).

"Detection of anomalous access to repositories of version control platforms" was invented by Rodwin Jaca Fuentes (Taipei, Taiwan), Joseph Cepe (Las Colinas, Texas), Brian Cayanan (Manila, Philippines) and Jessica Patricia Sta Ana Balaquit (Mandaluyong, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A version control platform has repositories for storing files of software development projects. A repository network graph is created, with nodes of the repository network graph representing repositories and edges between nodes representing access to repositories by the same use...