ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,188, issued on April 21, was assigned to Truist Bank (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Updating software applications to facilitate compliance with standard requirements in a distributed computing system" was invented by Cynthia Rhodes (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be provided for updating software applications to facilitate compliance with standard requirements. For example, the system can detect a modification to a requirement of a standard. Then, in response to detecting the modification to the requirement of the standard, the system can identify software components forming a software application required to comply...