ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,599, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Sensitive data detection" was invented by John Brian Bryan (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Xing Zhang (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data set can be analyzed for the presence of sensitive data using type-specific validation mechanisms to test data within the data set that superficially matches a corresponding data type format. In general, a type-specific validation mechanism may be applied to data segments within the data set when they match the data type format, and used to cumulatively build a statistical inference about w...