ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,534, issued on Sept. 16.
"Permissions management system and method" was invented by Peter Barendse (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented apparatus and method includes two or more user terminals, one or more services, communication channels among the user terminals and services; one or more lists of permissions stored in computer memory, a recursively-defined computer command vocabulary, wherein the recursively-defined computer command vocabulary comprises a "get" command with which a user can retrieve the value of a permission, depending on the whether the value of the permission allowing the user to use that...