ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,300, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Transparent enforcement of application-level access privileges on data structures" was invented by Vengateswaran Chandrasekaran (Trichy, India), Tomas Visnovec (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Lei Liu (Pezinok, Slovak Republic), Sriram Narasimhan (Cedar Park, Texas) and Abhishek Reddy Komma (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, from an application and during runtime of the application, a query including an artifact identifier that uniquely identifies an artifact, determining a data access privilege...