ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,880, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Apilyze Inc. (The Hills, Texas).

"Sensitive data proxy" was invented by James Greene (Mesa, Ariz.), Anirban Banerjee (The Hills, Texas) and Jonathan Aaron Litovitz (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing sensitive data proxy. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise implementing a sensitive data proxy configured to prevent unintended traffic from a client system to a target domain, including receiving a message from the client system intended for the target domain, determining a security rule to apply to the message, evaluating t...