US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Feb. 11 for "Misdirected email data loss prevention" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,973, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Misdirected email data loss prevention" was invented by Shalini Kamalapuram Sundaram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chris Moores (Owen Sound, Canada), Durgaprasad Velagaleti (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srikanth Konjarla (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Harsh Doshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to data loss prevention. A computing platform may detect input of a first target recipient domain into a first email message. The computing platform may identify, in real time and prior to sending the first email message, that the first targ...