ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,928, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Controlling a screenshot function to obfuscate sensitive information in a screenshot" was invented by Jude Pierre Anasta (Hudson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may monitor a screenshot function of a user device. The device may receive, via an application, sensitive information associated with an operation of the application. The device may detect a screenshot instruction associated with the screenshot function capturing a screenshot of a graphical user interface of the application that is displaying the sensitive i...