ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,548, issued on July 29, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Application gateway architecture with multi-level security policy and rule promulgations" was invented by Gregory Beckman (Baden, Canada), Robert Laird (Waterloo, Canada) and Alain Gagne (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an application gateway architecture may include an application gateway server computer communicatively connected to backend systems and client devices operating on different platforms. The application gateway server computer may include application programming interfaces and services configured for communicating...