ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,140, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OneTrust LLC (Atlanta).

"Data processing systems and methods for bundled privacy policies" was invented by Richard A. Beaumont (London) and Jonathan Blake Brannon (Smyrna, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments, are adapted for determining an applicable privacy policy based on various criteria associated with a user and the associated product or service. User and product criteria may be obtained automatically and/or based on user input and analyzed by a privacy policy rules engine to determine the applicable policy. Text from th...