ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,448, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Security compliance for modular code" was invented by Anthony Thomas Rowlands (Moore, Okla.) and Michael Joseph Fraser (Incline Village, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalog of pipelines for modular coding integrates resources for security compliance. The platform may incorporate tools and metadata for selecting suitable compliance standards and verifying security compliance for existing pipelines within the catalog as well as new pipelines created from existing pipelines."

The patent was filed on Sept. 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/946,7...