ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,280, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"Automated role-based access control scope change" was invented by Anshuman Upadhyay (South Windsor, Conn.), Colleen Ryan (Manchester, Conn.) and David Maraia (New Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enterprise back-end application computer server may implement an access control system for an enterprise. A Role-Based Access Control ("RBAC") scope data store may contain electronic records associated with a plurality of scopes for the enterprise. For each scope, the RBAC scope data store may include a set of computing resources that...