What is the name of the modern-day corporation that develops the Animus in Assassin's Creed?

Abstergo Industries is the modern-day corporation that develops the Animus in Assassin's Creed.

Within the series' fiction, Abstergo presents itself as a powerful multinational company involved in research, technology, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment. Its hidden leadership is connected to the Templar Order, which wants to use historical memories and First Civilization artifacts to shape human society.

The Animus is Abstergo's device for accessing genetic memories inherited through a person's ancestors. Desmond Miles is forced to use an early Animus in the first game, while later stories show revised models and changing relationships between the Assassins, Abstergo, and its subsidiaries.

Abstergo is not the name of the device itself: Animus identifies the memory-access machine. It is also distinct from the Assassin Brotherhood, which opposes Abstergo's Templar agenda. This corporate-versus-underground conflict supplies the modern framing that links otherwise separate historical protagonists.