ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,953, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lucidum Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Labels for data security system asset management" was invented by Joel M. Fulton (Cincinnati), Jeremy Sherwood (Beaverton, Ore.), Shuning Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Kai Yan (Austin, Texas) and Sheena Abshire (Jack, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for generating and applying function-based and/or rule-based labels to data records for a data security system are described. Such labels may be used for querying of data records. A user of a data security system may define metadata criteria for triggering generation of a label. In some exa...