US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on March 4 for "System and method for system access credential delegation" (Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,598, issued on March 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for system access credential delegation" was invented by Suresh Ramaswamy (Westford, Mass.), Sameh El-Gawady (Waltham, Mass.) and Praveen Kumar Velanati (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a framework that enables user to delegate other users as operators of their securely held account credentials via services backed by OAuth protocols. The disclosed framework provides functionality for users to be delegated access to other users' account credentials, information and re...