ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,943, issued on June 17, was assigned to Imperva Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Data classification technology" was invented by Itsik Mantin (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by one or more computing devices to classify data values into data types. The method includes receiving a data value to be classified, determining one or more features of the data value, generating feature information associated with the data value that includes information regarding the determined one or more features of the data value, performing one or more matching operations for the data value, generating match information associated with t...