ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,003, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Policy based compliance enforcement in a federated graph" was invented by Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum (Tromso, Norway), Iqra Ali (Tromso, Norway) and Theodoros Gkountouvas (Tromso, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing policy-based compliance enforcement in a federated graph data environment including receiving a query from a query caller for data stored in a graph data storage system, the query including one or more components that are mapped to data entities of the graph data storage system using a schema. The schema ...