ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,277, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Access control list (ACL) and role-based access control (RBAC) management using content-based datasets" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Steven Sadhwani (Round Rock, Texas), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing content based data access protection for data stored in a system by creating a dataset by grouping metadata for data objects that are grouped together by one or more filters. The dataset can span multiple storage devices...