ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,391, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for detecting sensitive terms in data" was invented by Bahman Rashidi (Malvern, Pa.), Sandhya Baskaran (Chennai, India) and Vaibhav Garg (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for predicting if an item of text data includes one or more sensitive terms. An item of text data may be received by a computing device from a second computing device associated with a user. The computing device may determine one or more words within the item of text data. An arrangem...