ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,450, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO International America Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Identity management system based on role" was invented by Yu Zhang (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Akira Sakashita (Plano, Texas), Kodai Yamaura (Lewisville, Texas), Jeffrey Berg (Birmingham, Mich.), Shazaan Bahrainwala (Shoreline, Wash.), Chris Lorenzo (The Colony, Texas) and Johanne Paguio (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity management system and method for operating the same includes assigning a role for a user, requesting access for a function of an access controller, selecting identificat...