ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,711, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Data loss prevention framework using cloud infrastructure" was invented by Aleksandr Markenzon (Falls Church, Va.), Kyle Flaherty (Henrico, Va.) and Somkanti Biswas (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for data loss prevention (DLP) is disclosed, the system and method including at least: receiving, by one or more computing devices and from one or more remote sources, one or more data streams each containing a textual data; consolidating, by the one or more computing devices, the one or more data streams into a single data stream, ...