ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,114, issued on March 18, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for data security and fraud prevention in collaborative editing environments" was invented by Andrew Ricchuiti (Dallas) and Mark Morrison (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data security and fraud prevention system is configured to transmit a web form to a first device, receive through the web form first data including first user private data associated with a first user, receive a request to share the web form with a second user, create a cache storage and an unique identifier associated with the web form, and mask the ...