ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,445, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Chaining, triggering, and enforcing entitlements" was invented by Yisroel Gershon Taber (Raanana, Israel), Tomer Turgeman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ittay Levy Ophir (Giv'atayim, Israel), Lev Rozenbaum (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Nerya Cohen (Elkana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to techniques for enforcing entitlements used by data privacy pipelines. When a data consumer requests to trigger a pipeline that relies on an entitlement, an enforcement mechanism may operate to verify the data consumer's triggering of the pipe...