US Patent Issued to Avecto on Dec. 9 for "Computer device and method for managing privilege delegation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,721, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Avecto Ltd. (Manchester, Great Britain).

"Computer device and method for managing privilege delegation" was invented by John Goodridge (Cheshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer device that manages privilege delegation is disclosed. The computing device can modify a virtual method table to point to a hooking function associated with an agent plugin. The agent plugin can be configured to intercept requests relating to a file using the hooking function. The computing device can intercept a request in a user account of a logged-in user to execute therein a command on the file...