ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,297, issued on April 29, was assigned to SYMPHONY COMMUNICATION SERVICES HOLDINGS LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Secure database with user-defined schemas" was invented by Bruce Skingle (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for providing secure communications among users from different organizations. An example method includes: providing a communication service to (i) a first group of users from a first organization having a first computing environment and (ii) a second group of users from a second organization having a second computing environment; creating a data storage schema in the ...