US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on May 5 for "Data management systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,752, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Data management systems and methods" was invented by Eric Swenson (Soquel, Calif.) and Harbinder Singh Hayer (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing access to data through enforcement of one or more associated rules. In various embodiments, a directory may be used to manage and/or otherwise record various relationships between objects, that may include governed objects such as data sets, and associated rules and rule sets. Access requests involving governed objects may be compar...