ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,584, issued on May 19, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for attribute based access control on a data lake" was invented by Ralph Pinheiro (Paoli, Pa.), Mouli Ravilla (Glen Mills, Pa.), Jagat S. Dhami (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Prashanth Reddy Balaiahgari (Pflugerville, Texas) and Satish Katakam (Exton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for attribute based access control on a data lake. The systems and methods include receiving a data file and metadata associated with the data file, storing the data file in a database and storing the metadata in a data catalog. The metadata is...