ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,545, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Data collection analysis for privacy risk assessment" was invented by Radhika Ravindranath (South Plainfield, N.J.), James Paul Black (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dev Narendrabhai Patel (Gujarat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying, by a processing device, a third-party service provider of a plurality of third-party service providers that is authorized by a user to access data associated with the user. A data privacy score is generated based on one or more privacy risk factors. The data privacy score is associated with the third-p...