ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,133, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configurable automated redaction of log data" was invented by Kyle Seipp (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Borowiec (San Jose, Calif.), Jayakumar Subramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Kutner (Quincy, Ill.) and Ivan Jibaja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configurable automated redaction of log data, including: selecting, based on one or more configurable rules, one or more portions of log data; generating obfuscated log data by replacing the one or more portions of log data with one or more obfuscated values; presenting the obfuscated log...