ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,317, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing the analysis of sensitive data across multiple data centers" was invented by Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Lan Zhe Liu (Beijing) and Wei Ge (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention disclose an approach for data security and management. Specifically, the approach involves managing the analysis of sensitive data across multiple data centers. The system includes a data location repository that stores and updates information regarding the locations of sensitive data in data cente...