ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,436, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corp. (Shanghai) and INVENTEC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for permission management" was invented by Wei-Chao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Chi Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Pin Wei (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chuo-Jui Wu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for permission management includes: generating a plurality of job roles with different permissions according to organization permission table; generating first permission structure directed graph according to the job roles; selecting one of the job roles in first permission structure directed graph ...