ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,930, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to DRATA INC. (San Diego).

"Automated trust center for real-time security and compliance monitoring" was invented by Brian S. Elmi (San Diego), Ross W. Hosman (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Adam R. Markowitz (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Daniel Zev Marashlian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated trust center for real-time security and compliance monitoring including maintaining, for an organization, a plurality of control statuses for a trust center report, including: retrieving control status responses from a group of services providers of the organization, wherein each control status respons...