ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,753, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic time-based data access policy definition and enforcement" was invented by Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli (Catonsville, Md.), Shriti Priya (White Plains, N.Y.), Julian James Stephen (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Arjun Natarajan (Old Tappan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data access requests are grouped into a plurality of clusters according to an activity count within each of a plurality of time periods. Based on a time separating two clusters in the plurality of clusters, a time window in which a data access policy applies is defined. U...