US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Data classification using dynamically filtered formats" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,366, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data classification using dynamically filtered formats" was invented by Ariel Farkash (Shimshit, Israel) and Micha Gideon Moffie (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a processor to automatically generate a regular expression automaton matching a textual pattern of a received format. The regular expression automaton is a superset of the format. The processor can automatically generate a multi-dimensional filter to be applied to input data based on the generated regular expression automaton."

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