US Patent Issued to SAP on May 19 for "Database access controls defined through logical expressions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,586, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Database access controls defined through logical expressions" was invented by Pedro Ziebell Ramos (Walldorf, Germany), Lucas Mendonca de Souza Xavier (Walldorf, Germany), Paulo Buttenbender (Walldorf, Germany), Ioannis Kostis (Heidelberg, Germany) and Daniel Bertolozi Iop (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a process that converts unprotected data into protected data based on permissions defined using logical operators. As such, user permissions can be managed with a simple string of data. In one example, the method may include receivi...