ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,220, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Rain Holdings Inc. (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

"Execution eligibility gate for relational autonomous computational entities" was invented by Marc Berger (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and media for gating execution of actions by autonomous or semi-autonomous computational entities. A proposed action may be evaluated by an execution eligibility gate configured to compute whether execution is permitted based on relational context associated with an initiating entity. Execution of the action may then be enabled, modified, or prevented by con...