US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 16 for "Scrambling an identity on the internet" (Georgia, Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,315, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Scrambling an identity on the internet" was invented by Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.), Bryant Yee (Silver Spring, Md.) and Armando Martinez Stone (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects described herein may obfuscate publicly available personal information by publishing generated synthetic user personal data to one or more sites. By publishing the generated synthetic personal data to one or more sites, a user's actual personal data will be more difficult to discern and/or detect, resulting in greater privacy, security, and/or control of...