ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,907, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data sensitivity estimation" was invented by David Trigano (Or Akiva, Israel), Andrey Karpovsky (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Basel Shaheen (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is generally directed to data classification. In one example of the technology, training data and a ground truth that indicates sensitive data within the training data is received. Based at least on the training data, natural language processing is used to learn features. The features include a naming feature that is associated with ...