US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 3 for "Method and system for quantifying and improving conformance to least privilege security policies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,813, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system for quantifying and improving conformance to least privilege security policies" was invented by Shaun Applegate-Swanson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Carl Waldspurger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Balaji Parimi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Naveen Jangalapalli (San Jose, Calif.), Maya Neelakandhan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Venkata Adusumilli (Cupertino, Calif.) and Parag Bajaria (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access privileges of at least one identity to resources are adjusted within an authorization system of a computing environment. ...