US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "System and method for protecting information" (American, British, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,823, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for protecting information" was invented by Uwe Helmut Jost (Groton, Mass.), Patrick A. Naylor (Reading, Great Britain), Dushyant Sharma (Mountain House, Calif.), Ljubomir Milanovic (Vienna) and William F. Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving input content that may include sensitive information for processing by a machine learning model; processing the input content with the machine learning model to generate output content; proces...