ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,898, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Query-based database redaction" was invented by Boxin Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Qiming Jiang (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and computer program products for redacting sensitive data within a database. An example method can include receiving a data query referencing unredacted data of a database, wherein the data query that is received comprises a value identifying a type of sensitive data to be redacted from the unredacted data, responsive to the data query, executing, by a pr...