US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Jan. 20 for "Access control system, access control method, and access control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,865, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Access control system, access control method, and access control program" was invented by Misu Jeong (Tokyo), Shinichi Nakamura (Tokyo), Shingo Masuyama (Tokyo) and Atsumi Mano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes: a model management unit configured to manage a chain of supply-related task as a model; a role management unit configured to assign a role to an executor of each of the tasks to manage the roles; a task access authority setting unit configured to set a task-specific access authority for each of the roles to generate task access authority...