US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Auditing of database search queries for privileged data" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,505, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Auditing of database search queries for privileged data" was invented by Craig S. Aldrich (Rochester, Minn.) and Mark J. Anderson (Oronoco, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for identifying privileged access to a database is provided. A processor receives a query plan to search the database. A processor determines the query plan includes a request that accesses privileged data. A processor generates an updated query plan with an indication of the request that accesses privileged data. A processor sends the updated query pla...