US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 23 for "Access control techniques based on software bill of materials" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,502, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access control techniques based on software bill of materials" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for managing access to remotely accessed software applications. In embodiments, such techniques may be performed by a service provider platform for software applications capable of being accessed by computing devices. The techniques may involve determining (e.g., based on a software bill of materials...