ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,342, issued on Oct. 14.
"Policy governed software agent system and method of operation" was invented by Larry Bunch (Gulf Breeze, Fla.), Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Pace, Fla.), Marco Mattos Carvalho (Satellite Beach, Fla.), Thomas C. Eskridge (Satellite Beach, Fla.), Paul J. Feltovich (Pensacola, Fla.), James Lott (Pensacola, Fla.), Andrzej Uszok (Pensacola Beach, Fla.), Maggie Breedy (Pensacola, Fla.) and Roger Carff (Cantonment, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for deploying software agents in a policy-governed environment. The use of over-arching policies to control the actions and interactions of the software age...