Which company is the modern-day owner of the Animus technology in Assassin's Creed?

Abstergo Industries is the modern-day company that owns and develops Animus technology in Assassin's Creed.

Abstergo is presented as a powerful multinational corporation secretly controlled by the Templar Order. Its Animus machines allow users to relive genetic memories inherited from ancestors, creating the narrative bridge between modern characters and historical protagonists.

In the first game, Desmond Miles is forced to use an Animus by Abstergo employee Warren Vidic. The company publicly operates in fields such as pharmaceuticals and technology, while its hidden Templar agenda seeks to use ancestral memories and Pieces of Eden for social control.

The name can be confused with the Assassin Brotherhood, which opposes Abstergo, or with later entertainment products within the fiction. Abstergo is the corporation; the Animus is the memory-viewing device it develops and uses.