ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,241, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Scanning and masking data at a source device" was invented by Tao Xu (Clarksburg, Md.), Nesreen Mansour (Great Falls, Va.) and Joseph Robert Sacchini (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an application server may receive an indication of one or more masking rules for identifying sensitive data at the application server. The application server may generate data that includes information associated with an application of the application server, where the data is associated with one or more destination devices. The application ...