US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 23 for "Smart sampling for sensitive data detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,468, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Smart sampling for sensitive data detection" was invented by Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel), Moshe Israel (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Shimon Ezra (Petach Tikva, Israel), Ron Matchoro (Hogla, Israel), Asaf Nakash (Yavne, Israel), Moran Polack (Caesarea, Israel) and Anastasia Kovalkov (Harish, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes obtaining a list of information storage resources that contain electronic files and forming multiple clusters of the information storage resources from the list of informa...