ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,312, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pax8 Inc. (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Third party interface for systems providing access management as a service" was invented by Jeffrey Wise (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Travis Cartwright (Arvada, Colo.), Theresa Wendland (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Oscar Bellechasse (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Daniel McGough (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Jeremy Frank (Greenwood Village, Colo.) and Cody Hanson (Greenbay, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing access to third-party software tools as a service. A standardized interface is provided for vendors to communicate with the ...