ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,938, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANOPY SOFTWARE INC. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for identification and management of compliance-related information associated with enterprise IT networks" was invented by Ralph Nickl (Reston, Va.) and Oran Sears (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to identification of protected information elements associated with unique entities in data files present in data file collections associated with enterprise IT networks. The unique entities can be associated with one or more entity identifications in one or more data files. Computer-generated id...