US Patent Issued to BeyondTrust on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for credential handling" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,894, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BeyondTrust Corp. (Johns Creek, Ga.).

"Method and apparatus for credential handling" was invented by John Burns Smith III (Charlotte, N.C.) and Nicholas Shawn Twerdochlib (Callahan, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privilege access management (PAM) appliance can receive an access request from an accessor device to access an endpoint device. The PAM appliance can establish a session via a secure connection between the accessor device and the endpoint device. The PAM appliance can transmit a request for credential information available for the accessor device to access the endpoint device fr...