ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,064, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AVECTO Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Managing registry access on a computer device" was invented by John Goodridge (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Ian James McLean (Cheshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device performs operations for managing registry access. The computing device can identify a registry operation requested by a user process. The computing device can perform an evaluation of a registry operation requested by the user process using at least one registry access rule. The computing device can generate a custom message to the user process. The computing ...