US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Sensitive data leak-detection engine in a security management system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,747, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sensitive data leak-detection engine in a security management system" was invented by Abhishek Shukla (Redmond, Wash.), Wing Kwong Wan (Redmond, Wash.) and Jie Wang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a sensitive data scanning in a sensitive data leak-detection engine of a security management system. Sensitive data scanning-for example confidential information scanning or credential scanning-provides sensitive data leak-detection via a software development environment duri...