ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,080, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Headwater Research LLC (Tyler, Texas).

"Enterprise access control and accounting allocation for access networks" was invented by Gregory G. Raleigh (Incline Village, Nev.), Alireza Raissinia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jeffrey Green (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of operating a device, where the method includes providing first access policy information indicative of an execution environment policy and second access policy information indicative of a security policy, based on the first access policy information indicative of the execution environment policy...