ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,814, issued on March 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for selectively censoring content in public locations" was invented by Justin Dax Haslam (San Antonio), Jose L. Romero Jr. (San Antonio) and Arthur Quentin Smith (Fredericksburg, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for selectively censoring sensitive information for presentation on a display of a computing device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed techniques may transmit the sensitive information after receiving an indication that the sensitive information is permitted to be displayed....