ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,828, issued on April 7, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Method and system for sovereign data storage" was invented by Rahul Kumar Tyagi (Dublin), John Allen (Newcastle, Ireland), Ashley Waldron (Dublin) and Peter Groarke (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented method for sovereign data storage comprising: authenticating a write request to upload data files to a global database system, determining relevant data types of the data files, determining a relevant regulatory domain associated with the data files out of a plurality of regulatory domains, applying regulatory domain rules as...