ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,100, issued on Sept. 15.
"Private data sharing system" was invented by Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel architecture for a data sharing system (DSS) is disclosed and seeks to ensure the privacy and security of users' personal information. In this type of network, a user's personally identifiable information is stored and transmitted in an encrypted form, with few exceptions. The only key with which that encrypted data can be decrypted, and thus viewed, remains in the sole possession of the user and the user's friends/contacts within the system. This arrangement ensures that a user's personall...