ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,963, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aurelius Technologies Group Inc. (Layton, Utah).

"Three-dimensional mapping for data protection" was invented by Ryan Welker (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data filtering that identifies a topic of interest for a user and individual sub-topics within the topic the user could be, or is, interested in. A three-dimensional map depicting a topic of interest containing markers for the sub-topics is created and used to specify a level of detail about the user's interest in the sub-topics that can be shared to or used by an external source."

The patent was filed on Jan. 10,...