ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,786, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CYTEX INC. (Frederick, Md.).

"System and method for monitoring data disclosures" was invented by Taimur Aslam (Frederick, Md.) and Andrew J. Surwilo (Allendale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data breach protection includes identifying data partners of an enterprise and determining data usage policies of the data partners. The data usage policies of the data partners may be monitored and a change in at least one data usage policy of at least one data partner may be detected. A similarity between an original version of the at least one data usage policy and the changed version of...