ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,095, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Pluggable data taxonomy and processing" was invented by Martin Taillefer (Redmond, Wash.), Rafal Mzyk (Kluczbork, Poland), Andrey Noskov (Prague), Jan Guttek (Prague), Scott Allen Thurlow (Bellevue, Wash.) and Stephen Toub (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taxonomy-agnostic data protection framework includes a plugged-in data classification taxonomy definition having a taxonomy identifier and a set of data classification indicators. The taxonomy-agnostic data protection framework also includes a plugged-in set of data class...