US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on March 31 for "Data management system for confidential information" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,544, issued on March 31, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data management system for confidential information" was invented by Nilesh Telang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint that includes a plurality of hashes is generated for a file. A deduplicated hash index is utilized to determine a similarity between the file and a plurality of files. An action is performed based on the determined similarity."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2024, under Application No. 18/967,125.

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