US Patent Issued to ZenPayroll on May 27 for "Tagging and auditing sensitive information in a database environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,438, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZenPayroll Inc. (San Francisco).

"Tagging and auditing sensitive information in a database environment" was invented by Christopher Joseph Scuderi (Daly City, Calif.) and Edward Kim (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access to sensitive information in a database can be restricted to improve security and enable efficient auditing. A security engine receives a request from a requesting entity to access data in the database and determines that the requested data includes sensitive information. In response to the requesting entity being authorized to access the data, the security engine r...