ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,460, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sensitive stored procedure identification in real-time and without data exposure" was invented by Leonid Rodniansky (Allston, Mass.), Mikhail Shpak (New York), Tania Butovsky (Needham, Mass.) and Shidong Shan (Shirley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment initiates, by a sensitive stored procedure identification engine, a periodic discovery process on a database server to identify a stored procedure and assign a first sensitivity score to the stored procedure based on a searching of a sensitive data pattern in the stored pro...