ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,614, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for hierarchical multitenancy data access" was invented by Robert Cannata (Hingham, Mass.), Arun Nadger (Cumberland, R.I.), John Peter Chinnappan (Oviedo, Fla.) and Gregg Gianopulos (Peabody, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for enforcing data access control policies in a hierarchical structure of a plurality of entities. The method includes receiving a data access request from a client in association with a target entity in the hierarchical structure and generating, by a security gateway, an internal access toke...