ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,472, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Authorization checks and auditing for queries in database systems" was invented by Xun Zhang (Xi'an, China), Taehyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yinghua Ouyang (Xi'an, China), Dongmei Xv (Xi'an, China), Yanchen Cao (Xi'an, China), Hong-Hai Do (Berlin), Taeyoung Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Zhen Tian (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "1. Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, by a database system, a query from an entity, providing a parse tree based on the query, the parse tree including nodes representative of operations to be executed...