US Patent Issued to Tranquil Data on July 1 for "System and method for using policy to achieve data segmentation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,309, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tranquil Data Inc. (Arlington, Mass.).

"System and method for using policy to achieve data segmentation" was invented by Seth Proctor (Arlington, Mass.) and Peter D. Shah (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for accessing data suitable for controlling user access to data across a shared distributed storage system is provided. The present invention relates to a system and method for a data management service that captures context for accessed data and utilizes the captured context with operational policy to govern user access to the data."

The patent was filed on ...