US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Dynamic inter-layer mapping of sensitive data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,913, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic inter-layer mapping of sensitive data" was invented by Oded Sofer (Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel) and Shlomit Avrahami Tomer (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of inter-layer mapping of sensitive data includes monitoring execution of an application providing an application interface through which a user can access a database. Monitoring execution of the application includes noting data fields of the application interface in which data is presented. The technique also includes monitoring accesses to the database mad...