ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,170, issued on May 13, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Sensitive data management system" was invented by Gerardo Fang (El Paso, Texas) and Nicholas Hermann (Rockledge, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a sensitive data management system. An embodiment operates by receiving a web form from a transaction account of a web application associated with a first user, the form indicating a request for sensitive information of a second user. A request for an authorization to release the sensitive information to the web application. The authorization from the second user t...