ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,795, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protection of data based on standards of security protection" was invented by Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.) and Rashmi Chandra (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes determining a first standard of security protection of a first vector, and applying the first standard of security protection to a first volume of data. In response to a determination that a second standard of secu...