ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,592, issued on July 29, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for auto discovery of sensitive data in applications or databases using metadata via machine learning techniques" was invented by Santosh Chikoti (Monroe Township, N.J.), Jeffrey Kessler (Mahopac, N.Y.), Ita B Lamont (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Saurabh Gupta (Secaucus, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for auto discovery of sensitive data may include: (1) receiving, at data enrichment computer program in a metadata processing pipeline, raw metadata from a plurality of different data sources; (2) enriching, by the data enrichme...