ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,466, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Data collaboration with sovereignty" was invented by Tarek Zaigouche (Nice, France), Liming Yang (Valbonne, France) and Majed Somai (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is described for correlating user data across a data border between regions. A method includes obtaining access to a first database of user data stored by a first data manager in a first region and obtaining access to a second database of user data stored by a second data manager in a second region. At least one event is identified that is triggered by a user or a da...