ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,813, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Combining allowlist and blocklist support in data queries" was invented by Padmanabhan Krishnan (Brisbane, Australia) and Kostyantyn Vorobyov (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Combining allowlist and blocklist support in data queries includes performing operations including obtaining a runtime query and extracting a set of runtime tuples from the runtime query. The operations further include processing the set of runtime tuples by an allowlist semantic comparator comparing the set of runtime tuples with an allowlist to ob...