US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 10 for "Maintenance of access for security enablement on a host system" (Arizona, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,966, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Maintenance of access for security enablement on a host system" was invented by Roger G. Hathorn (Tucson, Ariz.), Patricia G. Driever (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Christopher J. Colonna (Ossining, N.Y.), Evan Rivera (Carmel, N.Y.) and John R. Flanagan (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host port is enabled for security. In response to a determination by the host port that authentication or security association negotiation with a storage port cannot be completed successfully, the host port determines whether an audit mode indicator...