US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 4 for "System and method of providing granular access control" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,790, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method of providing granular access control" was invented by Mengke Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Samuel Mberere Kabue (Seattle), John Matthew Mangino (Seattle), David Minasyan (Bothell, Wash.) and Trent Der Green (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing delegated access control to a resource is provided. The method includes receiving a request to access the resource, where the request includes an access token and identifying a task to be performed on the resource. The access token identifies an access role ...