ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,166, issued on July 15, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Blockchain-driven dynamic access control" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Waterford City, Ireland) and Aoife Moloney (Waterford City, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include a processing device that receives a proposed block for inclusion on a blockchain, the proposed block including a proposed update to an access control policy and an update condition for evaluating the proposed update, transmits an access request to be evaluated according to a modified version of the access control policy that incorporates the proposed...