ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,972, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Relational security techniques for data lakes" was invented by Arun Suresh (Redmond, Wash.), Bharat Viswanadham (Langley, Canada), Sharad Singh (Bangalore, India), Arvind Rachuri (Bengaluru, India), Shashikant Banerjee (Bangalore, India) and Laljo John Pullokkaran (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for enforcing relational database security policies with respect to database components stored in a data lake. The techniques may include receiving, by a data lake security service assoc...