ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,943, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PrivacyHawk Inc. (Los Angeles).
"Data breach early warning notification" was invented by Aaron Mendes (San Diego) and Justin Wright (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for providing an early warning notification to a user if the user was likely involved in a data breach. In an aspect, an apparatus scans an email account of a user of a user device to identify a set of service providers from which the email account of the user has received one or more emails, searches one or more data breach reporting databases for at least a subset of the set of service provider...