ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,603, issued on July 22, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Code-sign white listing (CSWL)" was invented by Jeff J. Stapleton (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for verifying code bundles. One method includes receiving, from a client device, a request for information to verify an authorization of a code bundle, the code bundle associated with a first signed code segment and a second signed code segment. The method further includes generating a list of certificates associated with the code bundle and including a first certificate associated with the first signed code segment and a ...