US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Compliance aggregation" (California, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,165, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compliance aggregation" was invented by Anca Sailer (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Ramamurthy Vaidhyanathan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Nataraj Nagaratnam (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing device, security definitions from an owner of a cloud deployment; receiving, by the computing device, a customer profile having intents to use the cloud deployment; assessing, by the computing device and using automated assessment tools, compliance of the cloud deployment with the security definitions in view of the int...