ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,198, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reduced privilege access control assignment recommendations for identities in multi-cloud environments" was invented by Chirag Dayani (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew Thomas Naber (Redmond, Wash.), Sateesh Pragallapati (Redmond, Wash.), Bo Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Shaun Robert Applegate-Swanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommendations of access control assignments are disclosed. Paired activity data is determined based on historical activity. The paired activity data including task and resource pairs that indicate a task perform...