ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,010, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning modeling for protection against online disclosure of sensitive data" was invented by Irgelkha Mejia (Round Rock, Texas), Ronald Oribio (Austin, Texas), Robert Burke (Austin, Texas) and Michele Saad (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods use machine learning models with content editing tools to prevent or mitigate inadvertent disclosure and dissemination of sensitive data. Entities associated with private information are identified by applying a trained machine learning model to a set of unstructured text data received v...