ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,986, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Data treatment apparatus and methods" was invented by Elham Hajarian (Toronto), Meline Nikoghossian (Toronto), Gabriel Ramon Lorenzana (Toronto), Suhailah Syeda Rahman (Mississauga, Canada) and Nithin Balaji Venkatnarayanan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for streamlining a de-risking data security workflow. Data security requests identify information requested to be exported from a sensitive database. A de-risking database is searched to identify prior data requests for related information and, when found, the data request ma...