ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,101, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Veza Technologies Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Privilege graph-based representation of data access authorizations" was invented by Tarun Thakur (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Maohua Lu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables representation of data access authorizations using a privilege graph. In a particular embodiment, a method includes identifying first attributes of a first user. The method further includes traversing nodes of a privilege graph using the first attributes to determine subsequent nodes until one or more nodes representing a first subset of...