US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Data compliance based on automated annotations and protection bindings" (Swiss, American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,558, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data compliance based on automated annotations and protection bindings" 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 obtains program code of an application that defines annotations denoting a plurality of data types handled by the application. The device determines, for each of the plurality of data types, an associ...