ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,782, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Sensitive data discovery for databases" was invented by Christopher Robert Lumnah (North Providence, R.I.), Frank Schwaak (Recklinghausen, Germany), Ganesa Sankar Balabharathi (San Ramon, Calif.) and Michael Patrick Oglesby (Indianapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for database management are described. A database management system may transmit a request for a data management system of a database to provide a set of metadata attributes for structured data within the database, and may receive a set of metadata attributes for the structured data wit...