ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,830, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Data governance utilizing pattern based signet control" was invented by Nalini M (Chennai, India), Kalpesh Sharma (Bangalore, India) and Veeresh Bushetti (Savanur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data governance system includes a signet template generator engine, a signet specification enforcement, and a pattern based signet controller. The signet template generator engine generates a signet template by applying at least one signet to raw data received from a data producer. The at least one signet is designated with a consent level and includes at least one data...