US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Automated least privilege assignment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,832, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated least privilege assignment" was invented by Takuya Mishina (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for automated least privilege role definition. The techniques include enumerating access patterns including a subject, a verb, an object location, and an object type of respective Application Programming Interface (API) calls in source code associated with a binary program. For a first function call in the source code, the technique is configured to generate a first object type based on an API defin...