ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,268, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scenario-based access control" was invented by James Paul Gyarmathy Jr. (Shoreline, Wash.), Ali Alam (Sammamish, Wash.), Amanda Holcomb (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Alka Garg (Redmond, Wash.), Ayyappan Balasubramanian (Redmond, Wash.), Mansi Singhal (Redmond, Wash.), Gerardo Bodegas Martinez (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael Todd (Mill Creek, Wash.), Carrie Ann Culley (Seattle), Hardeep Kohli (Bothell, Wash.), Can Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.), Rohan Kamath (Issaquah, Wash.), Sandhya Vankamamidi (Redmond, Wash.), Jing Jing (Beijing), Zhuang Gao (Kirkland, Wash.), John Kingsly Masilamani (North Bend, Wash.) a...