ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,449, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Method and system for providing access control governance" was invented by Michael George Norman (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Isaac Leonardo Blum (Armonk, N.Y.), Roger F Bigger (Old Lyme, Conn.) and David Laurance (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for governing a policy for providing access to a system is provided. The method includes: receiving a plurality of policy data units, each respective policy data unit including information that relates to an access determination with respect to the system; processing the plurality of polic...