ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,491, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Selective deletion of sensitive data" was invented by Vijaya Kumbhashi (Karnataka, India), Prashanth Kamath Udyavar (Karnataka, India), Venkataraman Sankara Rama Subramanian (Karnataka, India) and Manikandan Krishnan (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein relate to protecting sensitive data. An application program is loaded on to memory of a computing device. The application program includes application code and sensitivity information. The sensitivity information is detected to determine application...