ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,949, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Risk-aware access control system and related methods" was invented by Andrew James Malton (Waterloo, Canada), Andrew Eric Walenstein (Issaquah, Wash.), Jinxin Liu (Ottawa), Burak Kantarci (Ottawa), Melike Erol Kantarci (Ottawa) and Murat Simsek (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A risk-aware access control system and related methods are provided. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is a provided a method of risk-aware access control, comprising: detecting a request to perform an action with respect to two factors, the factors bei...