ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,806, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"External file sharing operational security and governance platform" was invented by James V. Penna (Avon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may provide External File Sharing ("EFS") systems and methods via a back-end application computer server of an enterprise. A governance platform may identify an internal enterprise file to be shared external to the enterprise. The governance platform may then associate information in the identified internal enterprise file with at least one sensitivity label (e.g., company confidential, highly...