ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,235, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Access to data stored in a cloud" was invented by Monika Maidl (Munich) and Stefan Seltzsam (Ismaning, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital rights management is extended such that control over the access to data stored in a cloud remains with the originator of the data. The access information is coordinated between a rights application in the cloud and a rights server outside the cloud. A rights policy is used for fine-grained regulation of the access for users (user groups), computers (client, server) and validity periods. The access limits act...