ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,817, issued on March 24, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data lifecycle discovery and management" was invented by Deepa Madhavan (Chennai, India), Sudheer Kilari (Chennai, India), Meena Nagarajan (Chennai, India), Alejandro Picos (New York), Vladimir Bacvanski (Portola Valley, Calif.), Arunkumar Kannimar Ponnaiah (Chennai, India) and Srinivasabharathi Selvaraj (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data lifecycle discovery and management are presented. Data lifecycle discovery platform (DLDP) can identify data of users, data type, and language of data stored in data stores (DSs) of entities ba...