ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,313, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).

"Thin network-based resource integration" was invented by Robert Michael Dolezal (Buford, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A legacy resource is virtualized as a virtualized resource defined by features and capabilities set by an individual through a front-end user interface. Access rules are set on the virtualized resource based on the features and capabilities. When an access is requested to the virtualized resource, the corresponding access rules are enforced. Assuming there is no violation in the access rules, virtualized legacy resource services are overlaid on ...