ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,597, issued on March 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Automatic generation of production security controls from a testing collaboration platform" was invented by Candid Wuest (Bassersdorf, Switzerland), Igor Milosevic (Smederevo, Serbia), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and method of automatically updating the set of security controls in the production environment using AI based on historical data generated in the test management system TMS during the system's testing in the testing environment ...