ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,469, issued on July 29, was assigned to Citizens Financial Group Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Active data loss prevention (DLP) engine" was invented by Rajesh K. Shah (Parsippany, N.J.), Arif Sufi (Harrison, N.J.), Balamurugan Muthu (Phoenix), Sudip Mukhopadhyay (Jamaica, N.Y.), Deepak Nayak (Dayton, N.J.), Senthil K. Ponnappan (Peoria, Ariz.), Chris Benz (Seville, Ohio), Christopher D. Elomaa (Coventry, R.I.), Christine Roberts (Wayland, Mass.), Ryan Pearson (Cumberland, R.I.), Jeffrey M. Mayerson (Addison, Texas), Christopher C. Ebeling (Westwood, Mass.) and Kalyan C. Gottipati (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified platfor...