ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,074, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"System and method for securing windows discretionary access control" 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 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 respective principal comprises a user or a group of users. The system s...