Quantum Secure, San Jose, Calif., a provider of enterprise software to manage and streamline security identities, compliance and events across disparate physical security systems, announced approval of a U.S. patent covering core elements of the company’s SAFE enterprise software suite.

Among the elements included in the patent are integration of data and events to and from physical access control and security monitoring systems and a rules-based policy engine that enforces security policies and generates actionable events. It also covers presentation of signals from disparate security devices in a common standard format, and system response that includes generating an alarm, alerting official personnel and/or preventing access to an area of a site based on signal data.