ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,596, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Natural language processing for restricting user access to systems" was invented by Juan Cruz Benito (Salamanca, Spain), Ivan Duran Martinez (Vigo, Spain), Sanjay Kumar Lalta Prasad Vishwakarma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanket Panda (South Grafton, Mass.), Francisco Jose Martin Fernandez (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Ismael Faro Sertage (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system determine network based access to restricted systems. The method includes receiving a request for a permission access status of a party seeking access...