ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,807, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Authorization audit for access to privileged user data" was invented by Paul Michael Anderson (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Christopher Myers (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system, method, and storage medium comprising a processor, memory, and instructions to send a request for authorization to a user wherein the authorization is limited to a subset of privileged information associated with the user, receive a response for authorization from the use...