ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,947, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Access authorization for report data in a multi-tenancy data management system" was invented by Zhebin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Hao Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Kevin Mu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Xiang Xu (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A multi-tenancy data management system (DMS) may include multiple computing objects organized as a hierarchy of computing objects. The DMS may receive a request for report data associated with a first set of computing objects of the DMS. The DMS may ...