ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,686, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart device management resource picker" was invented by Vipul Modani (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Marshall (Mountain View, Calif.), Di Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Prem Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a smart device management resource picker includes receiving an authorization request from a third party. The authorization request requests access to a user resource managed by the device manager. The device manager manages access controls associated with a plurality of user devises, the access controls are conf...