ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,630, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and system for supporting dual party control authorization for sensitive operations" was invented by Ephraim Dror (Cupertino, Calif.), Senthil Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Abhidnya Sushant Joshi (Pune, India) and Satish Inampudi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing an operation includes: receiving a request from a data protection module with respect to assigning a security officer role (SOR) to a person; in response to the request and at a first point-in-time, initiating assignment of the SOR to the person; receiv...