US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods to protect sensitive data at processing intermediaries" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,607, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods to protect sensitive data at processing intermediaries" was invented by Iyengar Sridhar Narayanan (Markham, Canada) and Ahamed Jalaldeen Shahul Hamid (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, platform, program product, and/or method for protecting sensitive data including decrypting an incoming message comprising a base message and the sensitive electronic data; removing the sensitive electronic data from the incoming message to create a stripped message; encrypting the sensitive electronic data; storing t...