ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,269, issued on June 9, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for app certification" was invented by Ryan Speer (Libertyville, Ill.) and Naoki Ogishi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a web-based portal for certification of an application software (App). A draft App is created and submitted, by an App developer, to the web-based portal where a mediate administrator reviews, approves, or rejects the draft App based on a set of targets set by an App provider. The mediate administrator communicates rejection of the draft App to the developer. T...