ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,380, issued on Jan. 20.

"Object database for business modeling with improved data security" was invented by Gerhard Biermann (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular object database for holistic, object-oriented business modeling, in which business data and processes of all types are represented separately in key and value objects, wherein the attributes and methods of the objects are likewise stored separately from one another, and the database management system itself is implemented as objects of the object database, as a result of which simpler handling of the object database and substantially improved data sec...