US Patent Issued to ALTR Solutions on March 3 for "Replacing distinct data in a relational database with a distinct reference to that data and distinct de-referencing of database data" (Florida, Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,879, issued on March 3, was assigned to ALTR Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Replacing distinct data in a relational database with a distinct reference to that data and distinct de-referencing of database data" was invented by James Douglas Beecham (Austin, Texas), Christopher Edward Struttmann (Indialantic, Fla.) and Scott Nathaniel Goldfarb (Washington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process including: obtaining criteria to select plain-text values in a lower-trust database; selecting, based on the criteria, a first plain-text value; in response, determining a first reference value; storing the first plain-text...