US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 18 for "Identifying and consenting to permissions for workflow and code execution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,069, issued on March 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying and consenting to permissions for workflow and code execution" was invented by Sunay Vaishnav (Seattle), Merwan Vishnu Hade (Seattle), Stephen Christopher Siciliano (Bellevue, Wash.), David Nissimoff (Bellevue, Wash.) and Fnu Anubhav (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying and consenting to permissions for workflow and code execution. Aspects of the invention can be used to automatically scan a workflow or code definition to ...