ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,299, issued on June 23, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Techniques for preventing prohibited access to secure content" was invented by Sanjiv Yajnik (McLean, Va.), Reuben John (Mountain House, Calif.), Robin Mathews (Bellevue, Wash.), Ajmal Karuthakantakath (Flower Mound, Texas), Suresh Navayamkunnil Raghavan (McKinney, Texas) and Jordan Donais (Little Elm, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for improving access to and control of secure content. To prevent undesired data sharing/access (e.g., prohibited downloads, 4th, 5th-party sharing), access rules can be assigned to documents upon cr...