ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,294, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Smart assurance for enterprise-wide sensitive data" was invented by Ajay Maikhuri (Bangalore, India) and Vibha Pandey (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating data compliance with sensitivity policies is disclosed. The method involves receiving a user input that specifies a data category and searching a network to identify multiple databases. Data objects stored within those databases are identified, and a distinct signature is generated for each data object. A neural network is used to classify the signatures to determine...