ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,895, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Access control system with user profiles identifying user data sources for verifying user identity during a login attempt" was invented by Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Rinawl Ronald Sequeira (Milton, Canada) and Zachary Ransom (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operations of a computer program include receiving login credentials from a person using a computing device during an active login attempt to gain access to a system resource. A user profile associated with the login credentials is identified, and data is ...