ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,311, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Box Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Detection of personally identifiable information" was invented by Victor De Vansa Vikramaratne (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kave Eshghi (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for detection of personally identifiable information (PII). A first detector and a second detector are configured to interoperate. The first detector is different from the second detector and the second detector incurs a greater computational cost than the first detector when processing identical content. Content is presented to the f...