ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,804, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Varonis Systems Inc. (New York).

"Data collaboration protection" was invented by Dudi Mizrachi (Herzliya, Israel), Hagai Langer (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Roni Yaari (Herzliya, Israel) and John Neystadt (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method for automated data collaboration protection of sensitive content across an enterprise computer network. A machine learning model is trained to determine whether users are authorized to view instances of the sensitive content based on a plurality of signals. Responsive to an indication that an instance the sensitive c...