ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,477, issued on June 3, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions (Dublin).

"Management of access to data in a distributed database" was invented by Sunil Krishnan (Mumbai, India), Deepak Lalan (Bangalore, India), Melvin James Tomy (Delhi, India), Amit Punamchand Kawad (Maharashtra, India), Sunil Gunasekaran (Bengaluru, India) and Michael William Klein (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a distributed database management system may monitor data operations performed by a plurality of user devices, wherein the data operations are associated with a distributed database. The distributed database m...