ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,615, issued on May 6, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using a requestor identity to enforce a security policy on a network connection that conforms to a shared-access communication protocol" was invented by Or Moran (Rishon LeZion, Israel), Vladimir Perelman (Rishon LeZion, Israel) and Meital Ben David (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of using a requestor identity to enforce a security policy on a network connection that conforms to a shared-access communication protocol. A request to create the network connection to a network resou...