ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,760, issued on May 5, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Compositional reasoning of information flow in scripted query language" was invented by Kostyantyn Vorobyov (Brisbane, Australia), Padmanabhan Krishnan (Brisbane, Australia) and Francois Gauthier (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implements compositional reasoning of information flow in scripted query language. The method includes gating access to a database using a policy that includes a policy scope defined by a set of policy tuples extracted from a set of policy queries. The method further includes preventing execut...