ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,202, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enforcing security rules along a trajectory of data movement" was invented by Subha Kiran Patnaikuni (Visakhapatnam, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sri Harsha Varada (Vizianagaram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for enforcing security rules along a trajectory of data movement. Confidentiality levels of source data and of processed data at different points of an existing trajectory path in an application landscape are identified by analyzing sour...