US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 2 for "Automated framework for monitoring opt-out settings" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,733, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Automated framework for monitoring opt-out settings" was invented by Kang G. Shin (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hoang Duc Bui (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is presented for detecting non-compliance with an opt-out decision of a user. The method includes: identifying select statements of a privacy policy for an online tracking entity by analyzing webpages associated with the online tracking entity, where the select statements specify data practices in response to an opt-out decision; detectin...