ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,845, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and methods for scanning and profiling data for security compliance" was invented by Rohit Joshi (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for performing scanning and profiling of stored data to identify the location of data entries that comprise sensitive data that require storage in accordance with enhanced security requirements. The techniques advantageously move a portion of the scanning and profiling operations closer to the data storage locations, and involve deploying processing resources near the locations at...