ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,065, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for regulating application permissions" was invented by Anand Darak (Pune, India) and Sharad Mhaske (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for regulating application permissions may include detecting a device permission control interface displayed on the computer and identifying an application associated with the device permission control interface. The method may also include determining a permission policy applicable to the identified application and overlaying a transparent window over t...