ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,741, issued on Oct. 14.

"Fine-grained authorization as a service via relationship-based access control within a multi-tenant system" was invented by Damian Ezequiel Schenkelman (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jonathan Cornelius Allie (Newton, N.C.), Yamil Asusta (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Javier Alberto Centurion (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Raghd Hamzeh (Toronto), Sebastian Iacomuzzi (London) and Matias Adrian Woloski (Maldonado, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authorization system provides authorization services for multiple tenant organizations. The authorization is performed based on standardized data types-an authorization mode...