ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,109, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for data access management using encryption based on data sensitivity levels" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Naor Radami (Shokeda, Israel) and Amos Zamir (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing access to data stored in data storage systems are disclosed. An end device and/or user thereof may require access to sensitive data of varying sensitivity levels stored in a data storage system. To prevent malicious parties from gaining access to the sensitive data, an access contro...