ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,027, issued on July 14, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Access control using user behavior profile and storage system-based multi-factor authentication" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Omer, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for access control using user behavior profiles and storage system-based multi-factor authentication. One method comprises obtaining a behavior profile for a user; obtaining an input/output request from the user; determining whether the input/output request exhibits anomalous user behavior...