ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,309, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Securing sensitive and personal data through cognitive actions" was invented by Bernie Wong (Clearwater Beach, Fla.), Peter Edward Stubbs (Georgetown, Mass.), Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Rajasthan, India) and Balaji Natarajan (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for event-based data security. The method includes learning customer events which require an action on sensitive and personal information (SPI), learning a mapping between the customer events and a first subset of the SPI, detecting for a particula...