US Patent Issued to WHITESOURCE on May 26 for "System and method for scanning containers for vulnerabilities" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,449, issued on May 26, was assigned to WHITESOURCE LTD. (Givatayim, Israel).

"System and method for scanning containers for vulnerabilities" was invented by Barel Tayouri (Jerusalem), Amit Chitayate (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ariel Shuper (Kfar Haroe, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computerized apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining a collection of entities including a source code file and a non-source-code file; identifying a bundle within the collection of entities; generating a call and dependency graph of the collection of entities, the graph comprising two or more nodes each associat...