ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,967, issued on April 21, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"System and method for unified access management for federated technology infrastructure" was invented by Jun Wu (Shanghai), Taiyi Zhang (Shanghai), James McGuire (New York) and Boris Goberman (Fairlawn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems provide unified access management in a federated IT environment. The unified access management system comprises a first IAM system for a first legal entity and a second IAM system for a second legal entity. The first and second IAM systems may be configured to initiate c...