US Patent Issued to Early Warning Services on May 5 for "Systems and methods of determining compromised identity information" (Texas, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,784, issued on May 5, was assigned to Early Warning Services LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods of determining compromised identity information" was invented by Lester Leland Lockhart III (Austin, Texas), David Hugh Munson (Waterville, Maine), Gregor R. Bonin (Austin, Texas) and Michael Cook (Wimberley, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compromised data exchange system extracts data from websites using a crawler, detects portions within the extracted data that resemble personally identifying information (PII) data based on PII data patterns using a risk assessment module, and compares a detected portion to data within a...