US Patent Issued to Xero on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods of access control and system integration" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,493, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Xero Ltd. (Te Aro Wellington, New Zealand).

"Systems and methods of access control and system integration" was invented by Rodney Kenneth Drury (Havelock North, New Zealand) and Matthew John Vickers (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated provisioning, according to one example embodiment, enables a mutual customer to establish an intelligent and automated connection between an accounting software system and their financial institution. For example, this might be achieved by allowing a financial institution customer to make feeds from their bank accounts available to th...