ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,149, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Secure deployment of de-risked confidential data within a distributed computing environment" was invented by Meline Nikoghossian (Toronto) and Wojciech Chowanski (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, computer-implemented systems and processes deploy securely de-risked elements of confidential data within a distributed computing environment. For example, an apparatus may obtain configuration data associated with a source data table. The configuration data may specify an identifier of a column of the source data table that includes elements...