ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,420, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Scalable access control mechanism" was invented by Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas) and Timothy Gilman (Cross Plains, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain a first data store that stores first associations between subjects and first attributes, and a second data store that stores second associations between second attributes and permissions. The system can receive a query that identifies a user account and a resource. The system can determine, from the first data store and a context of the user account in initiating the query, first perm...