US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Access control systems and methods" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,453, issued on Oct. 14.

"Access control systems and methods" was invented by Daniel Chien (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer security techniques are described. One example provides a security module. The security module executes on a computing system and determines whether to allow a user or a program (e.g., native executable, script, etc.) associated with the user to access a resource, such as by reading, writing, or executing a file. An example operation system provides a new system administration mechanism that enforces rights and limitations for specific administrative and application groups that each have t...