ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,426, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Nested access privilege check for multi-tenant organizations" was invented by Ariel Gordon (Mercer Island, Wash.), Somak Bhattacharyya (Copland, Wash.) and Manish Shukla (North Bend, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing an access privilege for users of an organization having first and second tenants includes storing, at a data storage, first user account data of a first user account associated with a first user of the first tenant, the first user account data including a first object identifier, a first tenant identifie...