ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,823, issued on March 24.

"Systems and methods for facilitating privacy disclosure and consent" was invented by Eric Y Lee (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes intercepting a service request from an end user to a service provider; retrieving, from a storage, a list of user preferences of the end user for privacy and disclosure on a communication network; providing the service request of the end user and the list of user preferences to the service provider if the service provider is to process the user preferences; receiving a service response acknowledging the acceptance or rejection of the user prefere...