ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,922, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"User access group discovery" was invented by Erhan Mengusoglu (Southampton, Great Britain), John Donald Taylor (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Colin R. Penfold (Ropley, Great Britain), Gregory Lubel (Woolston, Great Britain), Mark John Pocock (Southampton, Great Britain) and David Michael Key (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for user access group discovery. The method includes: generating a matrix that depicts the respective resources of a set of reso...