ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,243, issued on April 15, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Data management platform" was invented by Walter Trotta (Cranford, N.J.), Vaibhav Kumar (Monroe, N.J.), Samuel J. Kass (Oberrieden, Switzerland) and Sasisekar Shanmugasundaram (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system to allow global usage of data while allowing regional jurisdictions control over sensitive data. Different jurisdictions may declare different types of data as sensitive data that is not to be discoverable by a third party. The system allows the data to be shared across jurisdiction boundaries with complete auditability, traceabilit...