ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,321, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for data access management based on environmental risk assessment" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Naor Radami (Shokeda, Israel) and Amos Zamir (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing access to data stored in data storage systems are disclosed. To prevent malicious parties from gaining access to sensitive data stored in a data storage system, an access control system may be implemented. The access control system may include monitoring of the physical environment and a registr...