ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,884, issued on June 24, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Dynamic, control-sensitive data management platform" was invented by Walter Trotta (Cranford, N.J.), Vaibhav Kumar (Monroe, N.C.), 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 another party. The system may receive data that includes encoded data at a first device from a sec...