US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 18 for "Efficient attribute-based access control authorization for a message broker" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,895, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient attribute-based access control authorization for a message broker" was invented by Kevin Thomas Damour (Redmond, Wash.), David Michael Sauntry (Redmond, Wash.), Peter Gregg Miller (Seattle), Jeroen Vanturennout (Snohomish, Wash.), Murli Dharan Satagopan (Kirkland, Wash.), William Alexander Stevenson (Seattle) and Michael Richard Yagley (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for authorizing publishing of a message and/or a subscription from...