ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,216, issued on April 22, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for synthesizing role-based access control assignments per a policy" was invented by Marc E. Mosko (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided to facilitate securing windows discretionary access control. During operation, the system determines a Windows domain model including: user-specified desired effective permissions as capability assignments of principals on resources, wherein a respective capability assignment comprises a permission of a respective principal to a respective resource and wherein a resp...