US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 19 for "Accessing secure system resources by low privilege processes" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,534, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Accessing secure system resources by low privilege processes" was invented by Kumar Rajeev (Redmond, Wash.), Ajay Preetham Barboza (Woodinville, Wash.) and Viraf Rusi Gandhi (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for enabling low privileged application to access secure system resources. A request from an application executing at a second privilege level can be received by a broker service executing at a first privilege level, where the request corresponds to accessing secure system resources. It can then be dete...