ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,921, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"Systems and methods for cloud-based federated records retention compliance orchestration, validation and enforcement" was invented by Peter Joseph Anctil (Long Beach, Calif.), David Humby (Richmond, Canada) and Alexander Gerasimov (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Through a cloud-based centralized user interface, a federated compliance system presents a policy of interest and representations of disparate systems that match the policy of interest to a user. The disparate systems, which operate in a distributed network computing environment, can inc...