ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,006, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Unified Compliance Framework (Network Frontiers) (Las Vegas).
"Automatic compliance tools" was invented by Dorian J. Cougias (Las Vegas), Vicki McEwen (Las Vegas), Steven Piliero (Las Vegas), Lucian Hontau (Las Vegas), Zike Huang (Las Vegas) and Sean Kohler (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for representing a mandate occurring in an authority document with a control is described. For each of one or more controls in a set of existing controls, the facility determines a similarity score measuring the similarity of the mandate and the control; where the similarity score exceeds a ...