US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Jan. 20 for "Data scrubbing for very large databases" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,500, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Data scrubbing for very large databases" was invented by Zackary George Aboud (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Roy Robert Kelly Nuyda (Union City, Calif.), Peter Rozovski (Concord, Calif.) and Peter Alan Seymour (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method and system for data scrubbing in very-large-databases (VLDB) within regulated industries. The method involves segmenting a copy of a production database into manageable chunks based on row identifiers, allowing for parallel processing without database contention. Each chunk is...