ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,391, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Netflow, UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Systems and methods for removing personal data" was invented by Darius Belejevas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Martynas Butkus (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service that allows user to request personal data be removed from multiple data brokers or people search providers and tracks the requests is provided. A user provides identifying data that can be used to verify their identify to the service. The identifying data may include information such as name, current and/or previous addresses, email address, telephone number, sex, birthdate, etc....