ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,994, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to OPEN TEXT SA ULC (Halifax, Canada).

"System and method for external users in groups of a multitenant system" was invented by Kyle Anthony Aziz (Kitchener, Canada), Scott Grasley (Kitchener, Canada) and Feng Guo (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content management systems are implemented according to a multitenant architecture by which software and its supporting architecture serves multiple customers of a service. Each tenant may be given a share of the application's data, configuration, user management, and other aspects of the application. Each tenant's data is isolated and typ...