ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,245, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for role based access control for data" was invented by Saurabh Soni (Telangana, India), Prachi Jain (Telangana, India), Amith Pallankize (Telangana, India), Nishant Sethi (Karnataka, India) and Vidhi Raheja (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include techniques for role based access control for data. These techniques may include assigning a data tag to an attribute of a plurality of database rows of a database table, the data tag identifying a pre-defined category associated with the attribute ...