US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 4 for "Database redaction for semi-structured and unstructured data" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,641, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Database redaction for semi-structured and unstructured data" was invented by Yimeng Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Carl Yates Perry (Burlingame, Calif.), Raghavendran Ramakrishnan (Kirkland, Wash.), Frantisek Rolinek (Seattle) and Yunqiao Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for redacting sensitive data within a database. An example method can include sending, to a database, a data query accessing a column of the database, a masking policy identifying a first category of s...