US Patent Issued to Material Security on April 15 for "Protecting contents and accounts using scan operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,844, issued on April 15, was assigned to Material Security Inc. (San Francisco).

"Protecting contents and accounts using scan operation" was invented by Ryan M. Noon (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhishek Agrawal (San Francisco) and Christopher J. Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprises receiving, by a secure content system, an email from a sender to a recipient, scanning the contents of the email, evaluating the contents of the email based on a plurality of security rules, storing the sensitive data within a secure storage, generating a replacement email including a security link and not including...