US Patent Issued to Shopify on May 27 for "Methods and systems for access control in a computing system" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,633, issued on May 27, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems for access control in a computing system" was invented by John Jong-Suk Lee (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for access control in an online environment, such as an e-commerce platform. The system receives a designation of a non-fungible token (NFT) collection in connection with a merchant account, each NFT having a respective combination of attributes. An association is detected between a product record and a combination of two or more of the attributes and the system automatically generates an access rule with rega...