ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,717, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Use of identity and access management for service provisioning" was invented by Graeme Jarvis (Marblehead, Mass.), Terezinha Rumble (Jensen Beach, Fla.), George C. Grammer (West Palm Beach, Fla.) and Michael Lamarca (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a system for monitoring provisions of services. The system includes a work order system for producing one or more work orders, an identity and access management system to verify information regarding a service provider and a system that receives a produced wor...