ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,384, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Veza Technologies Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Node and edge deduplication for a privilege graph" was invented by Maohua Lu (Fremont, Calif.) and Tarun Thakur (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein reduces nodes and edges within a privilege graph that indicates access privileges for users to features of data environments. In a particular example, a method provides identifying two attribute nodes of a plurality of nodes in a privilege graph and determining that the two attribute nodes share the same one or more outbound edges. The method further provides ...