ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,384, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for automatically determining code compliance" was invented by Shaun Smith (Atlanta), Leslie Skinner (Cumming, Ga.), Angela Merlette (Alpharetta, Ga.), Maiha Le (Alpharetta, Ga.), Rebecca Flaim (Gainsville, Ga.) and Ligia Garro (Escazu, Costa Rica).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a compliance computing system can generate an evidence repository including evidence data received via an application programming interface (API) from one or more external systems. The system can receive a compliance request including a compliance query, the com...