ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,459, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Structured encryption rules engine" was invented by Edoardo Vacchi (Milan) and Paolo Antinori (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rules engine that is running a rules-based application executing on a computing device comprising a processor device receives a first transaction that includes a plurality of data fields, at least some of the data fields including data to be evaluated by a plurality of rules identified in the rules-based application, the first transaction including encrypted data in a first encrypted data field of the plurality of data fields that...