ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,780, issued on June 24, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Hierarchical permissions model for case management" was invented by Satyapal P. Reddy (San Ramon, Calif.), Jeroen van Rotterdam (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Muthukumarappa Jayakumar (Mountain House, Calif.), Michael T. Mohen (Columbia, Md.) and Ravikumar Meenakshisundaram (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a case model definition defining a case model is received. The case model comprises a hierarchical permissions model comprising a plurality of hierarchical permissi...