US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 3 for "Multi-tiered data security and auditing system" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,887, issued on March 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Multi-tiered data security and auditing system" was invented by James E. Harris Jr. (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems disclosed herein describe tokenizing potentially sensitive data fields and distributing the tokenized data across various enclaves associated with multi-tiered security levels. A user may request to unmask the tokenized data. By auditing the tokenized data and the various enclaves, an authorized user may determine that the tokenized data has been properly classified or improperly misclassified. After confirmi...