US Patent Issued to Apple on July 28 for "Graphical user interface and system for defining and maintaining code-based policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,839, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface and system for defining and maintaining code-based policies" was invented by Mikol Graves (San Francisco), Peter J. Shepherd (San Jose, Calif.), Magnus Hei-Yu Ma (San Francisco), Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.) and Teemu Koponen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for defining code-based policies. The method generates a policy-builder first view of a policy for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) by processing a syntax tree that is generated from a code second v...