US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Automated detection and prevention of disclosure of sensitive information via electronic messaging" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,832, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated detection and prevention of disclosure of sensitive information via electronic messaging" was invented by Itai Gordon (Modiin, Israel), Miriam Nizri (Jerusalem), Shlomit Avrahami Tomer (Jerusalem) and Ofer Haim (Rosh Ha+3 ain, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: intercepting an electronic message between a sender and a recipient who both belong to a same organization, before the electronic message is viewed by the recipient; utilizing an NLP algorithm, a sensitive information detection algorithm, and a glossa...