ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,635, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatically generating task-based and limited-privilege user security credentials" was invented by Farhan Syed (Bangalore, India), Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Douglas J. Roberts (Cedar Park, Texas), Colby Harper (Austin, Texas), Jason C. Dale (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jun Gu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically generating task-based and limited-privilege user security credentials are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes processing a r...