US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Automatically masking sensitive information during screen sharing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,462, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatically masking sensitive information during screen sharing" was invented by Robin Jose (Bangalore, India), Tapas Saha (West Bengal, India), Harshavardhan Changappa (Bangalore, India) and Raviprasad Pentakota (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects for automatically masking sensitive information during screen sharing are described. In an embodiment, one or more processors are configured for detecting a first event corresponding to a start screen sharing session in a webpage browser; transmitting a first notification...