US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Data mark classification to verify data removal" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,156, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data mark classification to verify data removal" was invented by Ron Shmelkin (Haifa, Israel), Abigail Goldsteen (Haifa, Israel), Gilad Ezov (Nesher, Israel) and Ariel Farkash (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for testing a data removal are provided. Data elements are marked with a respective mark per represented entity. The marked data elements, with labels indicating the respective marks, are input into a machine learning model to form a trained machine learning model....