ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,948, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to STYRA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Comprehension indexing feature" was invented by Torin Sandall (San Francisco) and Timothy L. Hinrichs (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for defining code-based policies. The method generates a policy-builder first view of a policy for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) by processing a syntax tree that is generated from a code second view of the policy. The method receives, through the policy-builder first view, a modification to a portion of the policy. To reflect the modification, th...