ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,594, issued on May 5, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for rule-based database management and tagging" was invented by Terri Bly (Kirkland, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises generating a ciphertext rule defining a column tag when at least a subset of digits in a ciphertext stored in a column of a table matches predefined ciphertext digits associated with at least one of a first purpose, a first type, or a first sensitivity of column data in the column, generating, by the rule application, a table rule defining a table tag when the table includes the column that is...