ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,106, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic access control of calls made over named pipes with optional calling context impersonation" was invented by Daniel Thomas Daugherty (Plano, Texas) and Ricardo Antonio Ruiz (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automatically filtering privileged methods from unprivileged methods, and thus preventing privileged methods from being available to an unelevated consumer application executing on an information handling system. Filtering privileged methods from unprivileged methods may be performed, for exam...