ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,910, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Fine-grained data structure element access control" was invented by Gaurav Prakash Srivastava (Charlotte, N.C.) and Michael Scott Rumble (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for implementing a fine-grained access control structure for a data structure are described herein. An identification of an access vector for an element of a hierarchical data structure can be obtained and used to search the hierarchical data structure to locate a portion of the hierarchical data structure that includes the element. A representation of ...