ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,859, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cyral Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Security for database systems using identity providers for authentication" was invented by Srinivas Nageswarrao Vadlamani (San Jose, Calif.), Manav Ratan Mital (Mountain View, Calif.), Pramod Chandraiah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Hugo Araujo de Sousa (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Timothy Do Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) and Junio Cezar Ribeiro da Silva (Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a processor and a memory is described. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. The processor is...