US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Access control lists rules reduction" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,213, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Access control lists rules reduction" was invented by Rohan Gandhi (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for reducing access control lists (ACLs). The methods and systems combine multiple allowed internet protocol (IP) addresses from the ACLs to a single or small number of IP prefixes. The methods and systems calculate a minimum of the bit changes in transforming the IP addresses from one to another. Using the information for the minimum bit changes in transforming the IP a...