ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,923, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to UAB 360 IT (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Optimized header information to enable access control" was invented by Dovydas Bespalovas (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Mindaugas Valkaitis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method configuring a manager device, responsible for managing network services provided by an infrastructure device, to determine a manager request including a signature header signed by utilizing a manager private key associated with the manager device and a timestamp header identifying a point in time when the signature header was signed; configuring the manager device to trans...