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. 12,493,720, 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 insert a particular command into one or more commands corresponding to a file. The computing device can intercept a request to execute the particular command on the file according to first privileges. The computing device can determine to execute the particular command on the file according to second privileges differen...