ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,422, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for efficient verification of authority for invocation of operations" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and James Daniel Harms (Worthington, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for verifying authority in distributed systems are disclosed. Authority may be delegated to various entities within a distributed system to invoke performance of operations within the distributed systems. To verify that authority has been delegated, a security framework may be used that limits computing resource consumption for ...