ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,303, issued on May 27, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Pattern-based matching for policy engines" was invented by Robert Kelly McWhirter (Wytheville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein receives an untyped data structure. The untyped data structure includes a plurality of data items and each data item includes a field identifier and corresponding data. A policy to evaluate the untyped data structure is identified based on one or more field identifiers of the untyped data structure. The policy specifies a field identifier and a corresponding type definition. The type definition of the fiel...