US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Sensitive data classification in non-relational databases" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,783, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sensitive data classification in non-relational databases" was invented by Glenn Weidner (Gilroy, Calif.), Krishnaswamy Sundaramurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Shraddha Baliram Kannav (San Jose, Calif.), Haeri Kim (San Francisco), Ngan Tran (San Jose, Calif.) and Shashi Kumar Nanjaiah (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a system for detecting sensitive information in a non-relational database. The method includes partitioning a non-relational database into a plurality of partitions that are...