US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 25 for "Enhancing data security through contextual encryption and loss impact assessment in cloud environment" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,676, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enhancing data security through contextual encryption and loss impact assessment in cloud environment" was invented by Mahesh Reddy Appireddygari Venkataramana (Bangalore, India), Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Avinash Kumar (Patna, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for granularly classifying and protecting data are disclosed. A service accesses data comprising a first data unit and a second data unit. Based on an analysis of the data, the service assigns the first data unit a first sensitivity level and the second data unit a second sensi...