ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,840, issued on April 7, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"System and method for securely disposing data associated with inactive accounts" was invented by Mohan Kumar Tummalapalli (Bridgewater, N.J.), Nand Kishore Jayswal (Alpharetta, Ga.), Nidhi A. Jaiswal (Bangalore, India), Sumit Khairnar (Kothrud Pune, India), Raju Ravindran (River Vale, N.J.), Madonna Florendo (Morganville, N.J.) and Arnold DeRama (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying purge eligible data objects; generating a final purge list based on the purge eligible data objects in an iterative or ...