ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,842, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Eluvio Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Access control and ownership transfer of digital content using a decentralized content fabric and ledger" was invented by Serban Simu (Berkeley, Calif.) and Michelle Munson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, one or more processors are configured to provide fabric nodes of a network, including a first fabric node receiving a client request to perform one or more actions with re...