ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,457, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Flexible validation of source identifiers" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Keith D. Underwood (Spring, Texas) and Ian Ziemba (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for validating an identifier using a dynamic matching scheme, including software-defined-matching or hardware-validated-matching. Software-defined-matching may determine whether two identifiers are logically the same when they are both generated by a software application and match each other, and hardware-valida...