US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 17 for "Privacy-preserving labeling and classification of email" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,394, issued on June 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Privacy-preserving labeling and classification of email" was invented by Yi Luo (Redmond, Wash.), Weigsheng Li (Redmond, Wash.), Sharada Shirish Acharya (Seattle), Mainak Sen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri (Redmond, Wash.) and Christian Rudnick (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emails or other communications are labeled with a category label such as "spam" or "good" without using confidential or Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The category label is based on features of the emails such as metadata that do not co...