ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,093, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Flexible and reusable rule evaluation for secure execution of external commands" was invented by Alexander Ocher (San Jose, Calif.), Sreenivasulu Gelle (San Ramon, Calif.) and Manali Pise (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for flexible and reusable rule evaluation for secure execution of external commands. One example method includes identifying a first request to execute a command on a computing system. A data structure is accessed that defines rules for commands. A t...