ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,811, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Policy-aware software compliance verification with distributed code auditing" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Richard Kelley (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for continuous contextual policy-aware vulnerability mapping, security posture determination and attack planning and simulation, comprising an indexing service configured to create a dataset by processing and indexing source code of a project by a developer, perform a code audit on the indexed source code, store results from the code audit in the dataset, gather additional i...