ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,660, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Odaseva Technologies SAS (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France).

"System, method, and computer program for backing up a sensitive field in a data object in a storage system using an external backup system without enabling the external backup system to view the data in the sensitive field" was invented by Sovane Bin (San Francisco), Saddek Dekoum (Ris Orangis, France), Remi Poujeaux (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Arnaud Deronne (Castelnau le Iez, France), Francois Lopitaux (San Carlos, Calif.) and Arnaud Treps (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention backs up a sensitive field in a data ob...