ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,460, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Subject logging" was invented by Katherine Sue Hansen (Clayton, Calif.), Suma Handalagere (San Ramon, Calif.), Sanyukta Inamdar (Berkeley, Calif.) and Vamsi Thummala (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for monitoring tasks with respect to information stored in a database system. The method includes receiving a request to execute a task with respect to a database, wherein the request is associated with an identifier corresponding to a user that inputs a query for the reque...