US Patent Issued to Databricks on Oct. 21 for "Synchronization of access control policies with external data platforms" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,389, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Synchronization of access control policies with external data platforms" was invented by Nong Li (San Francisco) and Itay Alfred Neeman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system manages access control policies for accessing data stored in a plurality of data platforms. The system receives access control policy specification describing an access control policy that controls access to a set of datasets by a set of users. The set of datasets is defined based on a condition based on the data tags representing attributes of the datasets. The system compiles t...