ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,824, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to distribute access to shared accounts with a trusted intermediate service manager" was invented by Seth Jacob Rothschild (Littleton, Mass.) and Radia Joy Perlman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing access to a web-based service includes obtaining, by an intermediate service manager and from a managing client, credentials for a managing account associated with the web-based service and an access condition of accessing the web-based service by a second account to the intermediate service manager, obtaining...