ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,973, issued on March 31, was assigned to Caber Systems Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"System and method for security control over data flows in distributed computing systems" was invented by Robert Lauro Quiros (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application generally relates to methods, systems, and programming for detecting security issues within a computing environment. In some embodiments, data flows may be analyzed to determine links between data sources and metadata. Using the derived relationships, a determination may be made as to whether the is a security issue, such as a security policy ambiguity, o...