ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,445, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Evaluation of a privacy incident risk in computer code" was invented by Bushra Sulaiman Aloraini (Vancouver, Canada), John Stewart Siy Chu (Vancouver, Canada), Calvin Lii (Vancouver, Canada), Richard Chiang (Vancouver, Canada), Vihang Yogesh Godbole (Vancouver, Canada) and James George Haslam (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Privacy incidence evaluation systems and methods are disclosed herein. A code changeset is retrieved that identifies a change from a prior version of a code. A tokenization score is determined from keywo...