US Patent Issued to DBCompliant on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for data retention and purging" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,209, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DBCompliant LLC (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for data retention and purging" was invented by Nicholas Craig Scope (Chicago) and Alexander Rasin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems of data governance. In one aspect, a method of purging backup data includes obtaining a database table having a corresponding data policy and generating an encrypted version of the database table by applying an encryption key, including encrypting at least a portion of the database table. The method further includes identifying an expira...