ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,043, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Universal conceptual control management" was invented by Mikhail Istomin (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Wei Wang (Harrison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a system can separate permissions, rules, and controls into a discrete intermediate layer of a universal conceptual control management hierarchy as control objects. The system can define at least one interaction for each of the control objects. The system can assign resources to the control objects. A first control object of the c...