ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,920, issued on March 31, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Granular authorization flow in a distributed, multi-domain computing system" was invented by Kerry D. Brabble (Orlando, Fla.), Robert K. Floyd III (Clermont, Fla.) and Nicholas Jordan Lewis (Saint Cloud, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention sets forth a technique for automatically managing access control authorization in a distributed computing system. This technique includes receiving an access request from a requesting entity and recording the access request in an audit log. The technique also includes retrieving access contro...