ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,575, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic resolution and enforcement of data compliance" was invented by Marcelo Yannuzzi (Vufflens-la-Ville, Switzerland), Herve Muyal (Gland, Switzerland), Jean Andrei Diaconu (Haute-Savoie, France), Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany) and Carlos Goncalves Pereira (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device may obtain a location of an endpoint that communicates with an application service. The device may match the location of the endpoint to a data compliance policy. The device may identify sensitive data within the appl...