ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,315, issued on June 23, was assigned to Avecto Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Managing privilege delegation on a server device" was invented by John Goodridge (Cheshire, Great Britain) and Thomas Couser (Lancashire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server device for managing privilege delegation to control execution of commands thereon is described. Execution of a command, according to first privileges, by a remote management (RM) server on the server device is requested from a RM client on a client device. An agent plug-in, chained to a command execution plug-in of the RM server, intercepts the request and forwards...