ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,742, issued on May 5, was assigned to Collibra Belgium BV (Brussels).

"Reflected distributed data access" was invented by Vadim Vaks (Holland, Pa.) and Christopher Channing (Riseley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for securely reflecting data from a local datastore. In one example embodiment, a user may connect local datastores to edge nodes that may facilitate communication between a third-party data management hub and the local datastores. A user operating the third-party data management hub may request to read/write certain data at the local datastores (that the...