ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,449, issued on May 27, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for managing privacy policy violations" was invented by Daniel Kats (Culver City, Calif.), Johann Roturier (Maynooth, Ireland), Yun Shen (Bristol, Great Britain) and David Silva (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing privacy policy violations may include obtaining, by the computing device, an intermediate representation of a privacy policy, wherein the intermediate representation denotes a formal policy and is generated by extracting the privacy policy in natural language from a website a...