ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,677, issued on May 27, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Policy based access control system with standardized enforcement layer" was invented by Praveen Viswanathan (Jodhpur, India) and Bharath Kumar (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media that support dynamic enforcement of access control policies in a standardized manner. An administrator console enables access control policies to be defined as classes that may be combined and leveraged to rapidly define access control policies for enforcement in a standar...