ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,968, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to McAfee LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Quantified social media privacy" was invented by Dattatraya Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Urmil Mahendra Parikh (Bangalore, India), Jitesh Dattani (Bangalore, India) and Himanshu Srivastava (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing includes a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: on behalf of a human user, scan a social media platform for which the user has an account, and compute a proactive privacy risk score, wherein the proactive privacy risk score is a qua...