ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,284, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VARONIS SYSTEMS INC. (New York).

"Method and system for automated permissions management" was invented by John (Eugene) Neystadt (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Lior Chen (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for dynamically refining access rules for governing control of access by multiple users to data elements or services (DEOSs) stored in or accessed through at least one access controllable network element (ACONE), including collecting initial permissions to the DEOSs, receiving and periodically updating notifications of actual access events of the multiple users to th...