US Patent Issued to The Prudential Insurance Company of America on May 5 for "System for improving data security when storing data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,779, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Prudential Insurance Co. of America (Newark, N.J.).

"System for improving data security when storing data" was invented by Venkatesh Sarvottamrao Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.), Sahil Vinod Motadoo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher John Schille (San Jose, Calif.) and James Francis Lavine (Corte Madera, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a third party wants to redeem a user's personally identifiable information (PII), the third party presents to the system a token representing the PII, which indicates a request for the PII. The system seeks consent from the user for sending the PII to the ...