ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,105, issued on April 15, was assigned to SWISSCOM AG (Bern, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for improved search for data loss prevention" was invented by Hans-Joachim Lotzer (Bern, Switzerland) and Klaus Gerhard Haller (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for enhanced data loss prevention. Data loss prevention may be applied to data that includes a plurality of records and a plurality of categories, with each record including a plurality of fields and each field corresponding to a different one of the categories. Applying of data loss prevention may include selecting a subset of records...