ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,800, issued on July 15, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Distributed attribute based access control as means of data protection and collaboration in sensitive (personal) digital record and activity trail investigations" was invented by Alexander Kremer (Lexington, Mass.) and Tamir Pivnik (Nahariya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed system provides access by a principal to a resource associated with sensitive data. Micro-services in communication with an authorization engine each include a resource provider that receives a resource action request from the principal to access the resource, determi...