US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on March 24 for "System and method for protection of personally identifiable information" (Colorado, Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,818, issued on March 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"System and method for protection of personally identifiable information" was invented by Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Jess W. Gingrich (San Antonio) and Olga Kirik (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of automatically protecting sensitive information. The system identifies whether sensitive information is being provided in a file by a user at an application. The application will block the submission of documents that include sensitive information or are of low quality. If sensitive information is ...