ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,364, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Yandeh Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Autonomous machine identity and authority protocol with constraint-bound execution enforcement and verifiable execution receipts" was invented by Papa Gora Samb (Ellenwood, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterministic execution control protocol for distributed autonomous systems improves the security of distributed computing systems by preventing unauthorized execution under compromised identity conditions through consistent, reproducible runtime enforcement and cryptographic verifiability. An authority artifact encodes an execution scope, a permi...