ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,029, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic access policy provisioning in a device fog" was invented by Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Nathan Heldt-Sheller (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for dynamic access policy provisioning in a connected device framework are described herein. In an example, the techniques for policy provisioning may include resource update access policy automation, directory resource access policy automation, or hidden resources access policy automation, as monitored and operated with an access management service (AMS). In an e...