US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Seat-assignment based resource tracking" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,245, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Seat-assignment based resource tracking" was invented by Wilco Gerardus Bernardus Bauwer (Renton, Wash.), Eduardo Javier Leal Tostado (Redmond, Wash.) and Jagdish Singh (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Seat-assignment based resource tracking is used to track usage, or consumption, of resources under a license. An account includes a license for a plurality of resources. An allotment is generated under the account and populated with a plurality of seats. Populating the allotment with the plurality of seats automatically authorizes...