ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,211, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cyemptive Technologies Inc. (Snohomish, Wash.).

"Data manipulation detection through a verification operating system" was invented by Robert Pike (Snohomish, Wash.), Stewart P. MacLeod (Woodinville, Wash.) and Brian A. Jensen (Wilson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verification operating system (VOS) is an intermediary operating system that verifies data of a primary operating system before the primary operating system controls of the computing device. When the computing device is initialized, initial boot processes load the VOS instead of the primary operating system. The VOS performs ver...