ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,736, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NextLabs Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Enforcing data access policies in a reverse proxy" was invented by Keng Lim (Atherton, Calif.) and Poon Fung (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of masking, redacting, filtering, and encrypting data retrieved from or stored into a database using policies in an information management system. The system comprises application, data protection, and database components. A data protection component is placed between an application component and a database component to provide protection to data in a database by applying data access...