US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on July 21 for "Embedded next generation access control system and imposing fine-grained access control of data in a database" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,319, issued on July 21, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Embedded next generation access control system and imposing fine-grained access control of data in a database" was invented by Gopi Katwala (Germantown, Md.) and David Frank Ferraiolo (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embedded next generation access control system imposes fine-grained access control on data in a resource database and includes a resource database, NGAC database, administrator, and mediator. The resource database includes controlled resource data and a media...