ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,866, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to VANTA INC. (San Francisco).

"Techniques for providing security-related information" was invented by Sanjay Umesh Padval (New York), Lauren Joyce Adiova (San Diego), Ritvik Sunil Annam (San Francisco), Kevin Chen (San Francisco), Frederick Wonbae Chung (San Francisco) and Walton Lawrence Seymour (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a computing device to provide security-related information by (a) receiving a plurality of documents that relate to a plurality of security-related features provided by a service provider (SP) external to the device; (b) receiving in...