ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,724, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC.
"Privacy aware source code" was invented by Bjorn Gunnar Remseth (Viken, Norway), Haiyue Chen (Oslo, Norway), Nico ReiBmann (Trondheim, Norway) and Arve Aleksander Nymo Skogvold (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting privacy-relevant data from unauthorized disclosure in source code of an application. For instance, the present disclosure provides a plurality of technical features including: a privacy-relevant data analyzer that analyzes source code, detects privacy-relevant data in the source code, and generates a ...