ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,629, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OWL Systems Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of processing encryption of database storage data and database management system" was invented by Jun Ho Yu (Gwacheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of processing encryption of database (DB) storage data and a database management system (DBMS). The method includes, when an encrypted column inquiry request is received through an application, executing a hooking module, inquiring about, by the executed hooking module, encryption data in a DB of a DBMS, and decrypting retrieved encryption data and transmitting the...