US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Techniques for protecting sensitive data within electronic communications" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,395, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for protecting sensitive data within electronic communications" was invented by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Suresh Kumar Shanmugam (Bangalore, India) and Rajiv Asati (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for managing access to sensitive data detected within an electronic communication. In some embodiments, such techniques may comprise receiving, from a sender, an electronic communication directed toward a first recipient. The techniques may then comprise identifying one or more piece...