ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,820, issued on June 24, was assigned to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL (INCORPORATED Purchase, N.Y.).
"Managing restricted time intervals of entity identifiers of data records in a database" was invented by Lakshay Marwaha (Jalandhar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method manages entity identifiers (EIDs) of data records in a database, including restricting and releasing EIDs associated with deactivated data record entities. An EID uniquely identifies the deactivated data record entity among a group of data record entities. The obtained EID is restricted from being assigned to another data record entity, and interactio...