ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,861, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Hierarchical case model access roles and permissions" was invented by Satyapal P. Reddy (Fremont, Calif.), Muthukumarappa Jayakumar (Mountain House, Calif.), Arnaud Viltard (Concord, Calif.) and Ravikumar Meenakshisundaram (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hierarchical case model access roles and permissions are described. A system creates, for a child node associated with a parent node in a case model, a reference to a case role associated with the parent node. The system assigns another set of access permissions to the reference. The syste...