US Patent Issued to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) on July 29 for "Role-based component access control" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,608, issued on July 29, was assigned to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Role-based component access control" was invented by Manuel R. Hernandez Santos (Durham, N.C.), Keith M. Campbell (Cary, N.C.), Eric Pettersen (Raleigh, N.C.), Clifton E. Kerr (Morrisville, N.C.), Christopher L. Wood (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Steven L. Vanderlinden (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Component access control includes: receiving, by an access control module, permissions specifying authorization of physical access to one or more secured components of a computing system by one or more requestors; rece...