ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,895, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Digital security violation system" was invented by Mykhaylo Bulgakov (Arlington, Va.), Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia), Andrea Montealegre (Arlington, Va.) and George Bergeron (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system determines that a third party system has been exposed to a digital security violation. The computing system identifies a first user account of a user registered with the computing system that has a corresponding account associated with the third party system. The computing system determines that the first user account...