ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,161, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prediction of security levels for incoming data" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India), Nithish Kote (Bangalore, India) and Thanuja C (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for management of data security are disclosed. For example, a method comprises collecting data from one or more devices, and predicting security levels of respective portions of the data using one or more machine learning algorithms. In the method, security configurations for a subset of the respective portions of the data are implemented based, at ...