ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,163, issued on July 15, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for sanitizing sensitive data and preventing data leakage from mobile devices" was invented by Giorgio Natili (Fox Island, Wash.) and Sudheendra Kumar Kaanugovi (Aldie, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for leveraging artificial intelligence to sanitize sensitive data and prevent the data from leaving the mobile device and/or be exposed to unauthorized third parties. More specifically, methods and systems are described for a novel and unconventional architecture for a data sanitization applica...