US Patent Issued to DELINEA on Dec. 2 for "Fine-grained elevation and restriction of API function calls" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,083, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DELINEA INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Fine-grained elevation and restriction of API function calls" was invented by Charles A. Chopp II (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a privilege management agent in an operating system having User Account Control (UAC), the privilege management agent having pre-defined application control policies and an application control service (ACS). The privilege management agent is used to process elevation requests to provide an access token to allow a process running under a user account to run as an elevated process based on the pr...