ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,116, issued on July 15, was assigned to Resourcely Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Guardrail enforcement engine for imported electronic resources" was invented by Travis MacLeod McPeak (San Jose, Calif.) and Alaeddin Saleh Abdelrahman Almubayed (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A policy enforcement application receives input specifying policy constraints for resources of a given type. The application imports a pre-existing resource into the policy enforcement application, and determines, by the policy enforcement application, that the pre-existing resource is of the given type. Responsive to determining that the pre-existing...