ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,902, issued on March 31, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Context-based sensitive message detection" was invented by Avishek Bhattacharya (Bangalore, India), Yaser Karbaschi (San Jose, Calif.), Pralay Ramteke (Chandrapur, India) and Anirudh Mittal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A context-based chat message data loss prevention system ("DLP system") detects sensitive chat messages communicated via Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") applications. The DLP system receives chat messages via SaaS connectors and buffers the chat messages in sliding windows that correspond to context of chat messa...