US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Autoencryption system for data in a container" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,099, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autoencryption system for data in a container" was invented by Fang Tai L Li (Beijing), Zhi Li Guan (Beijing), Guo Liang Huang (Beijing), Jia Nan Zhang (Beijing) and Heng Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that manages sensitive data. A computer system identifies the sensitive data for a group of application containers using configuration information for the group of application containers. The computer system encrypts the sensitive data identified for the group of application containers to form encrypted sensitive data. ...