ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,692, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Numecent Holdings Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Rule-based application access management" was invented by Arthur S. Hitomi (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Robert Tran (Anaheim, Calif.), Peter J. Kammer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Doug Pfiffner (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) and Huy Nguyen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container that manages access to protected resources using rules to intelligently manage them includes an environment having a set of software and configurations that are to be managed. A rule engine, which executes the rules, may be called reactively when software accesses protected r...