ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,987, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Authorization decisions using conditioned permissions for resource collections" was invented by Ruchika Goyal (Cary, N.C.), Ashfaq Ahmed (Austin, Texas), Ameer Jabbar (Lilburn, Ga.), Xiaojun Yang (Warren, N.J.), Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas) and Wai Yim (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive a request, and identify an attribute-based access control policy comprising a permission policy and a condition policy that is associated with performing an operation with respect to a group of computing resources with a first scope of th...