US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 21 for "Controlling access to sampled databases" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,237, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Controlling access to sampled databases" was invented by Reinhold Geiselhart (Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany), Juergen Schimpf (Schoenaich, Germany) and Rene Blath (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to query sampled data of a database is obtained. Based on the request, a determination is made as to whether access to the sampled data of the database is to be allowed. To determine whether access to the sampled data of the database is to be allowed, a query domain defined for the query is checked with a data...