ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,998, issued on March 25, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Database security through obfuscation" was invented by Ashwin Kayyoor (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve a database including a table, wherein the table contains database records and a schema by which the database records are arranged. The embodiment may further involve one or more processors configured to: obtain a query that references the table and one or more elements of the schema; copy at least part of the table into a second table; transform, using a deterministic one-way function, the schema of the seco...