ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,894, issued on April 14, was assigned to CYBERSTAR SOFTWARE LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Trust-based verification system and method for scalable access control and cyber-security qualifications" was invented by Marling Engle (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) and Richard M. Edwards (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a platform and a computer-implemented process of controlling access to a restricted resource by verifying qualifications in compliance with a regulatory security framework. A computing system receives a configuration package including a qualification set, a threshold trust for a qualification, a plurality of different s...