Canopy Secures Patent on Autonomous Data Mining Review Technology

Canopy Software, leader in the Data Breach Response software space, today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 12,596,938. This issuance further strengthens Canopy’s intellectual property portfolio and expands the foundational protection for its autonomous data mining technology.

This latest patent confirms the use of Canopy’s autonomous technology for data mining review. At the center of this patent is Canopy’s Auto Review, a groundbreaking innovation that transforms first-level document review — previously seen as necessary gruntwork — with a structured decision support system. Enhanced with a proprietary ensemble of GenAI and large language models (LLMs), Auto Review is purpose-built to execute the collection of entities and personally identifiable information (PII) at scale.

“I am proud to be at the helm as Canopy ushers in a new generation of incident response data mining with Auto Review,” said Ralph Nickl, CEO and Founder at Canopy. “By alleviating the administrative and logistical burden of hiring and managing large-scale review teams, we are making secure end-to-end data mining accessible to more providers.”

While legacy tools focus on basic scanning to assist human reviewers, Canopy’s patented technology executes first-level review. Protected capabilities include:

• Entity-Centric PII Linking: Automatically connecting disparate data elements to specific individuals across massive datasets.
• Integrated Image & Document Analysis: Seamlessly extracting and analyzing sensitive data from structured, unstructured, and non-text formats including images, spreadsheets, and PDFs.
• Intelligent Confidence Scoring: Assigning confidence scores to every decision, informing QC strategy.
• Feedback-Driven Reprocessing: Delivering improved efficiency by learning from human corrections and refining output.

Further, Auto Review addresses a critical security vulnerability: human exposure. Every individual accessing a dataset represents a potential point of failure. By replacing large, often offshore, manual review teams with a contained autonomous process, Canopy enables providers to keep sensitive data within a controlled environment, ensuring regulatory compliance and client trust.

Fully integrated into Canopy’s Data Breach Response software, Auto Review accelerates project timelines from weeks to days, allowing legal and cyber teams to pivot their focus from rote data entry to high-level decision-making.

Learn more about Canopy’s patented approach to autonomous data mining review at https://www.canopyco.io/product/auto-review. 

About 🌳🌳🌳Canopy

Canopy is the leader in AI-powered data mining technology. The company’s patented Data Breach Response software provides incident response teams with fast, accurate, and secure data mining from start to finish, including culling, personal data (PII & PHI) review, and consolidation. Canopy has been named a winner of the 2023 NVTC Cyber50 Awards, 2022 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, the 2022 NVTC Tech 100, the 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and the 2021 Global InfoSec Awards. Connect with one of our Foresters today at contact@canopyco.io or visit www.canopyco.io to learn more about data mining done right.