US Patent Issued to Veracode on Sept. 29 for "Automated triage of code flaws with machine learning" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,853, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Veracode Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Automated triage of code flaws with machine learning" was invented by Humza Tahir (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flaws in a codebase for an organization are triaged with a naive Bayes classifier that determines likelihoods of triage decisions corresponding to actions (e.g., remediating via code change, deferring due to network mitigation, labeling as false positive) given the context of the flaw, application, and organization. The naive Bayes classifier is trained on the triage outcomes of previously detected flaw instances in the codebase...