US Patent Issued to DOGWOOD LOGIC on March 17 for "Traceable decentralized control of network access to private information" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,284, issued on March 17, was assigned to DOGWOOD LOGIC INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Traceable decentralized control of network access to private information" was invented by Evan M. Lally (Blacksburg, Va.) and Sandra M. Klute (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Access by decentralized client computers to private information pertaining to a subject stored in a decentralized database is selectively controlled to facilitate an access-control transaction. The private information is embedded with one or more access-control objects containing an independently-verifiable digital representation of consent by the subject and associat...