ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,348, issued on April 8, was assigned to ALTR Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Security driver external functions" was invented by James Douglas Beecham (Austin, Fla.), Christopher Edward Struttmann (Indialantic, Fla.), Mark Snellman (Orlando, Fla.), Judson Benton Locke (Indialantic, Fla.) and Kevin Rose (Viera, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are processes to increase security of database systems, in some cases with transparent retrofits. Examples may include the calling of external functions responsive to a data access event, such as detected by a database driver, upon connection attempt to, request attempt to, or retri...