ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,464, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data leakage protection using generative large language models" was invented by Jeffery Crume (Raleigh, N.C.), Aankur Bhatia (Bethpage, N.Y.), Walid Rjaibi (Markham, Canada) and Youngja Park (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for automatically detecting data leakages and generating data leakage detection rules for a rules engine. The rules engine is configured with rules for identifying first sensitive data patterns in input data, and a large language model (LLM) is trained to identify second sensitive...