US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Telemetry sampling scanning for exposed secrets and other sensitive data" (Washington, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,462, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Telemetry sampling scanning for exposed secrets and other sensitive data" was invented by Michael Christopher Fanning (Redmond, Wash.), Eugene Wilson Hodges IV (Holly Springs, N.C.), Jacek Andrzej Czerwonka (Sammamish, Wash.), Nicolas Yves Couraud (Westwood, Mass.) and Christopher Michael Henry Faucon (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods identify a data record set and determine whether one or more predetermined conditions exist for triggering analysis of one or more records in the data record set. Di...