US Patent Issued on March 17 for "Optimization for access policies in computer systems" (Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,964, issued on March 17.

"Optimization for access policies in computer systems" was invented by Shawn Patrick Authement (Round Rock, Texas), Edward Shvartsman (Austin, Texas), Natalie Isabelle Tagher (Philadelphia), Nicholas James Xitco (Austin, Texas), Dhruv Maniktala (Damascas, Md.), Aeddon Liu Chipman (Helotes, Texas) and Ben Lopez (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for analyzing and optimizing access policies. Access policies are analyzed by an access policy optimization system. In cases where large numbers of users have similar access privileges, the number of overall...