ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,921, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OneTrust LLC (Atlanta).

"Utilizing metadata-based classifications for data discovery in data sets" was invented by Aniruddha Ghosal (Sandy Springs, Ga.), Shane Wiggins (Atlanta), Kotreshi Sakragoudra (Marietta, Ga.), Kevin Jones (Atlanta) and Laurence McNally (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes one or more implementations of systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a repository of metadata-based recommendations to classify data sources using metadata from the data sources. For example, the disclosed systems can generate a repository o...