US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Access bridge for access control methodology migration" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,658, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Access bridge for access control methodology migration" was invented by David Alan Hill (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of an access bridge to facilitate migration from a role-based access control management system to an attribute-based access control management system are provided. One aspect provides a computing system comprising processing circuitry coupled to memory that stores instructions, which, upon execution by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to: identify a role-based protected resour...