ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,288, issued on May 27, was assigned to Normalyze Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Data scan sampling control for data discovery and posture management" was invented by Yang Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Ajay Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Ravishankar Ganesh Ithal (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology receives a control input identifying a sampling criterion for classifying a data store storing a set of data objects in a computing environment as corresponding to a target data type and deploys one or more scanners configured to select a representative subset of data objects, from the set of data objects, based...