US Patent Issued to Protegrity US Holding on Sept. 9 for "Data tokenization and search in a distributed network" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,977, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Protegrity US Holding LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"Data tokenization and search in a distributed network" was invented by Ulf Mattsson (Cos Cob, Calif.) and David Clyde Williamson (Great Missenden, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data in a database can be protected, for instance by tokenizing the entries of the database using one or more token tables. To enable searching data within the database without first detokenizing the tokenized database entries, bigrams of each data entry can also be tokenized and stored in association with the tokenized data entry. When a query term is receive...