ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,469, issued on May 26, was assigned to TigerGraph Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Permissions management for queries in a graph" was invented by Qing Gong (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mingxi Wu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software described herein manage permissions in association with a query to a graph. In one example, a method of managing the permissions includes identifying a request for a query operation. In response to the request, the method further provides for identifying an access control list (ACL) in association with the query operation and identifying whether the query operation ...