ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,622, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Progress Software Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Compliance enforcement tool for computing environments" was invented by Christian Dominik Richter (San Francisco) and Christoph Thomas Hartmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing creation and/or implementation of compliance-based procedures and policies for computing environments executing software programs using computing resources. In at least some situations, the described techniques include performing one or more defined compliance tests on a target computing environment by employing user-defined and/or ...