US Patent Issued to Upguard on June 17 for "Risk assessment system for identifying data files with sensitive information" (Australian, New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,038, issued on June 17, was assigned to Upguard Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Risk assessment system for identifying data files with sensitive information" was invented by Jacopo Sabbatini (Hobart, Australia), Gregory Ford Pollock (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan David Hendren (Sydney), Daniel Bradbury (Sydney), Michael Franz Baukes (Hobart, Australia), Stephen Cossell (Auckland, New Zealand) and Justin Glenn Lloyd (Gosford, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for assessing whether data files contain sensitive information associated with an entity. The system stores search keywords associated with t...