US Patent Issued to Allstate Insurance on Dec. 16 for "Cyber-security presence monitoring and assessment" (Illinois, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,908, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Cyber-security presence monitoring and assessment" was invented by Jason D. Park (Chicago), Howard Hayes (Glencoe, Ill.), Tao Chen (Northbrook, Ill.) and John S. Parkinson (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may monitor consumer information in order to determine a probability of a data breach associated with a customer based on an online presence of the customer. The probability of a data breach may be used to present metrics to a consumer and/or a service provider. Further, the c...