ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,837, issued on April 21, was assigned to BARLEA Corp. (Bothell, Wash.).
"Technologies for auditing and maintaining access to protected data" was invented by Daniel J. Dubeau (Bothell, Wash.), Lawrence Richard Jones (Mapleton, Utah) and Samuel William Nathan (Longview, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling auditing access to protected data stored at a data service using smart contracts on a blockchain are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a compliance management system may maintain and update a public blockchain with transaction indicative of non-compliance events associated with access to the p...