ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,772, issued on May 5.

"Sensitive information disclosure prediction system for social media users and method thereof" was invented by Geetha Raju (Chennai, India), Karthika Subbaraj (Chennai, India), S. Bose (Chennai, India) and Poongodi Manoharan (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system comprises a feature extraction processor for extracting a set of features from user data; a sensitivity score calculation processor for calculating the sensitivity score using a machine learning technique; an SVM model for classifying the dataset; a tracking unit for monitoring the outbound data transfers made by a DLP agent and identifyin...