US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Tracking data lineage and applying data removal to enforce data removal policies" (California, Virginia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,071, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking data lineage and applying data removal to enforce data removal policies" was invented by Arpan Jugalkishor Asawa (San Francisco), Brian Douglas Remick (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Marcus Vinicius Silva Gois (Bothell, Wash.), Ritesh Kumar Sinha (Fremont, Calif.), Sidi Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Sejal Kiran Shinde (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan Lee Jobse (Hillsboro, Va.), Rong Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sharanya Chinnusamy (Fremont, Calif.), Marc Andrew Power (San Jose, Calif.) and Marcus Jon Jager (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...