ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,279, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Database management system using policy labels, role patterns, roles, and access control relating thereto in metadata of a target table" was invented by Chihiro Morita (Osaka, Japan), Naoki Umeda (Akashi, Japan), Takuma Maeda (Kobe, Japan), Yuho Shiinoki (Akashi, Japan), Nobuyuki Washio (Akashi, Japan) and Kosuke Suzuki (Ota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording medium storing a program and method causing a computer to: store a first policy label according to a data type to be stored in a target table in metadata of the target table; refer to policy ...