ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,779, issued on June 24, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Session-centric access control for secure ephemeral shells" was invented by John Ezra-Razi Jawed (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are shown for session centric access control of a remote connection. A request for a remote connection is received from a client. A container is created for the remote connection, and an identifier for each of one or more endpoints authorized for the remote connection are stored in the container. A secure shell is initiated for the remote connection. Access is provided to the first endpoint from the one or ...