ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,920, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Receiving requests for permission to access data within a database system" was invented by Scott Tuan Quach (Lynnwood, Wash.), William Luke Barnes (Seattle), Younes Lahrichi (Bellevue, Wash.), Farrah Young Lee (Bellevue, Wash.) and Hailey Eloise Mandal (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for receiving requests for permission to access data within a database system. This disclosure is meant to enable an end user to request access to different parts of a data mode...