US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Data protection utilizing efficient data classification" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,461, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data protection utilizing efficient data classification" was invented by Hong Min (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Sahil Dureja (Calgary, Canada), Venkat K. Balagurusamy (Airmont, N.Y.), Eysha Shirrine Powers (Los Angeles), Cecilia Carranza Lewis (San Jose, Calif.) and Gayathiri Chandran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of data classification and data protection includes recording, in a lineage repository, dependence relationships between data objects and recording, in a classification repository, data classification...