ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,087, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data protection with online account validation" was invented by Ryan Lee Jobse (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for validating accounts in an online service. One method includes an operation for determining if accounts in an online service are valid and compliant, which includes checking one or more compliance conditions defined for the account. Further, the method includes operations for storing, in a cache memory, information for the accounts that are determined to be valid a...