ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,304, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Controlling access to data using a URL associated with a query" was invented by Sowmya Manjanatha (Westford, Mass.) and Kevin Scott Canuette Grimaldi (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling access to data. The system includes an electronic processor configured to receive, from a first computing device, a first resource request using a uniform resource locator (URL) and identify a first data record, from a plurality of data records, corresponding to the URL. The electronic processor is also configured to identify...