ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,647, issued on May 27, was assigned to Netskope Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video data loss prevention (vDLP)" was invented by Stevan W. Pierce Jr. (Camas, Wash.), Damian Charles Chung (Gilbert, Ariz.), Robert Wayne Butler (Rockport, Ill.) and Madhura Sridhar (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video data loss prevention (vDLP) system that uses machine-learning for protection against data exfiltration of sensitive content across multiple tenants in a cloud-based network. The vDLP system consists of tenants that include end-user devices and a vDLP server. The vDLP server is configured to intercept traffic at an applicat...