ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,325, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Centralized technology access control" was invented by Andy Zhang (Shanghai), John Wu (Shanghai), Nishi Kant (Bangalore, India) and John K. Jordan (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods monitor and control entitlements for IT assets in an enterprises system based on separation of duty conflict rules. The system may determine whether existing entitlements or a requested entitlement violates the conflict rules and perform an entitlement conflict remediation action. The entitlement conflict rem...