US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 7 for "System and method for managing privileged account access" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,187, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for managing privileged account access" was invented by Abdullah T. Al-Essa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Khalid H. Qahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Taher A. Alwusaibie (Al-Hofuf, Saudi Arabia), Anthony Graham Murdoch (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Tariq S. Alshlash (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Osamah A. Bugeaey (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is described that reduces a likelihood that a privileged account at a system (e.g., device, network, and/or application) for a user is compromised. For example...