US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on May 26 for "Automated security analysis of software libraries" (Virginia, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,111, issued on May 26, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Automated security analysis of software libraries" was invented by Jeremy W. Long (Herndon, Va.) and Mitch Moon (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying security vulnerabilities in a third party software component includes generating a test application for the third party software component. The test application is generated such that every externally accessible data path in the third party component is called. The test application and the third party software component are analyzed using a static application security testing...