ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,979, issued on May 12, was assigned to Veza Technologies Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Enforcement of authorization rules across data environments" was invented by Tarun Thakur (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Maohua Lu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables enforcement of high-level rules defined by a user across multiple data environments. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving a high-level rule from a user for enforcement across a plurality of data environments and interpreting the high-level rule into a computer-readable rule. The method further includes translating the compute...