ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,519, issued on March 24, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Identity access management systems and methods with enforceable compliance" was invented by Jamie Lin (St. Louis), Sylvan H. Morley III (Thornton, Colo.), John Knies (Evansville, Idaho), Jason Lish (Phoenix), Vishal Vallabha (Mount Juliet, Tenn.), Glenn Balanoff (Arvada, Colo.), Christopher Buzzetta (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Alexander Tate (Kansas City, Mo.), Joseph Serrano (Centennial, Colo.) and Mark Howe (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enforcing compliance-program conformity during authorization-token generation...