ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,507, issued on April 21, was assigned to Grey Market Labs, PBC (Arlington, Va.).

"Embedded device for control of data exposure" was invented by Kristopher P. Schroeder (Falls Church, Va.) and Timothy R. Underwood (Burke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing data exposure are provided and include a data protection device embedded or otherwise coupled to a computing device. The data protection device receives communications from the computing device and intended for a network resource over a secured connection between the data protection device and the computing device (e.g., a communications interface o...