ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,601, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recertification of access control information based on context information estimated from network traffic" was invented by Gianluca Gargaro (Rome), Raffaele Giulio Sperandeo (Marcianise, Italy), Luigi Lombardi (Naples, Italy) and Davide Fazzone (Baiano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to facilitating a recertification of access control information. A corresponding method comprises collecting network traffic information relating to a network. Context information is estimated from the network traffic inform...