McAfee Assigned Patent

McAfee LLC, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11610020) developed by Jain, Shashank, Parikh, Urmil Mahendra, Kulkarni, Dattatraya, Bangalore, India, and Nalluri, Srikanth, Karnataka, India, for “securing sensitive user data stored locally by an application.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An apparatus, related devices and methods, having a memory element operable to store instructions, and a processor operable to execute the instructions, such that the apparatus is configured to identify sensitive user data stored in the memory by a first application, determine a risk exposure score for the sensitive user data, apply, based on a determination that the risk exposure score is above a threshold, a security policy to restrict access to the sensitive user data, receive a request from a second application to access the sensitive user data, determine whether the first application and the second application are similar applications, and allow access based on a determination that the first application and the second application are similar application.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-05-29 (16/887676).