US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on June 3 for "Automated data masking with false positive detection and avoidance" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,496, issued on June 3, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Automated data masking with false positive detection and avoidance" was invented by Katherine Larson (Centreville, Va.), Naga Deepak Chelluri (Ashburn, Va.) and Patrice Bramble (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may receive a set of data intended for storage. The system may detect, within the set of data and using pattern matching, a set of potential sensitive data fields. The system may detect, using characters not included in the potential sensitive data fields, at least one non-sensitive data field includ...