US Patent Issued to NextLabs on Jan. 27 for "Dynamically inserting guard conditions into a database query to protect privacy and confidentiality and prevent data leak" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,318, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NextLabs Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Dynamically inserting guard conditions into a database query to protect privacy and confidentiality and prevent data leak" 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 compo...