ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,932, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for an integrated process to streamline privileged access management" was invented by Fatima D. Alburaikan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmad S. Lutfullah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an integrated process to streamline privileged access management (PAM) allows an integration of an existing PAM system with a self-service portal at the front, and an existing back-end workflow automation engine, is disclosed. In the method, a request for an elevation for an access to an application is rece...