US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Compliance risk management for data in computing systems" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,189, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Compliance risk management for data in computing systems" was invented by Pascal Vetsch (Zurich), John G. Rooney (Zurich) and Luis Garces Erice (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. For each dataset in the system, embodiments of the present invention can identify at least one stack of hierarchically-dependent system components on which that dataset is dependent, and generate a system graph having nodes interconnected by directed e...