ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,542, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Global control access platform" was invented by Landon Flores (Rowlett, Texas), Julia Ruth Nash (Richardson, Texas) and Gregory R. Hintermeister (Rochester, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing controlled access to resources in an enterprise begins by defining a "mesh" that associates a workplace team to a set of one or more workplace resources. The team has a role that, with respect to the resources, has a set of access permissions. An individual that is not then associated with the workplace team, e.g., in the giv...