ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,732, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Gen Digital Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for managing user data collection" was invented by Iskander Sanchez (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lei Gu (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for managing user data collection may include analyzing one or more web pages of each of one or more companies by crawling the one or more web pages to find policy-related content, identifying collected user data that was collected by each of the one or more companies by analyzing the policy-related content, extracting data removal request information from the policy-...