ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,215, issued on June 24, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Automated compliance and artifact generation for regulatory software change management policies" was invented by Mehulkumar Sharadchandra Shah (Colonia, N.J.), Rajitha Ramasayam (Liberty Hill, Texas), Jason C. Pollard (Sheffield, Ill.), Vu Van Toan Tai (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Ho Choi (Mount Prospect, Ill.) and Michelle Midboe (Shorewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may produce standardized compliance reports that may contains change requirements, test and security results, and approvals with validation and attaching the compliance rep...