ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,480, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data privacy compliance for secondary data storage systems" was invented by Bijendra Singh (Cedar Park, Texas) and Shashikanth Rao Palsikar (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described relating to enforcing privacy constraints when data is transferred between data systems. In some examples, a request to transfer a dataset from a primary data system to a secondary data system may be obtained. A set of privacy policies May be enforced on the dataset to generate a modified dataset by performing one or more of: modifying value...