ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,894, issued on March 18, was assigned to Service Layers GmbH (Munich).

"Method and system for running an identity and access management system" was invented by Jurgen Biermann (Grunwald, Germany), Daniel Deckers (Stuttgart, Germany), Timothy Clayton Hobbs (Barcelona, Spain), Tobias Hulsken (Stuttgart, Germany), Heiko Hutter (Hochdorf, Germany) and Andre Priebe (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for running an identity and access management system includes providing at least one layer, and a master computer that communicates with at least one slave computer. The master computer has at least one component whi...