ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,098, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alteryx Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Generating access tokens for direct data plane requests" was invented by Roland Manfred Hochmuth (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Jonathan Lounsbury (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data analytics system receives a data access request from a client device at a control plane. The data access request is a request to access a set of target data files stored by the data analytics system. The data analytics system identifies a data plane that stores the set of target data files and generates an access token for the client device based on the request and the id...