ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,946, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to IPLA Holdings Inc. (New York).

"Service layer dynamic authorization" was invented by Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Vinod Kumar Choyi (Conshohocken, Pa.), William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Donald A. Fleck (Emmaus, Pa.), Richard P. Gorman (Ivyland, Pa.), Nicholas J. Podias (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), Yogendra C. Shah (Exton, Pa.) and Shamim Akbar Rahman (Cote St. Luc, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extensible policy-based service layer dynamic authorization framewo...