US Patent Issued to Lookout on Feb. 4 for "Using fake personal data to create a policy to protect personal information on client computing devices" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,797, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Lookout Inc. (Boston).

"Using fake personal data to create a policy to protect personal information on client computing devices" was invented by Timothy Micheal Wyatt (Toronto), Kevin Patrick Mahaffey (San francisco), David Luke Richardson (San Francisco), Brian James Buck (Livermore, Calif.) and Marc William Rogers (Moraga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for managing personal data on a client computer, in which personal data associated with the client computer is identified by a policy management module. An analysis may be performed for the client compute...