ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,555, issued on June 2, was assigned to STONE & INK ARCHIVE LLC (Sheridan, Wyo.).

"Systems and methods for deterministic conformance suites, validator implementation certification, and verifiable certificate registries for replay-verifiable conformance receipts" was invented by Yong Bok Lee (Sheridan, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a fail-closed conformance control layer for machine-assisted decision artifacts. The system generates replay-verifiable receipts that commit to a canonical artifact digest, evidence and snapshot identifiers, assumptions, toolchain identifiers, and a policy pack identifier and policy version...