ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,732, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Glean Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automated detection, redaction, and reporting of sensitive information" was invented by Arvind Jain (Los Altos, Calif.), Hui Luo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jason Guo Jin (San Francisco), Piyush Prahladka (Los Altos, Calif.), Sharvanath Pathak (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shivaal Roy (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tirunelveli R. Vishwanath (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for preventing the unauthorized use and display of sensitive information contained within search results or within documents that are linked to by search results or ...