ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,381, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Smart result filtration for secret scanning" was invented by Tamir Friedman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Idan Hen (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques for secret scanning in cloud environments significantly enhance detection quality and efficiency by employing a multivariate collaborative filtering model. This model intelligently filters out irrelevant secrets identified across customer environments by analyzing a variety of features including secret type, secret value, file path, and other metadata. A relevanc...