ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,536, issued on March 24, was assigned to Linx Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"System and method for identity modeling and effective permission management" was invented by Niv Goldenberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Matan Haimovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Uri Ezra (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hila Ohayon Bahri (Yavne, Israel) and Gil Golub (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identity modeling and effective permission management in a cloud computing environment is presented. The method includes accessing a first identity provider system to detect a first identity, the first identity including a first permission; accessing a se...