ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,248, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Fortanix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed user data management systems with local data storage" was invented by Jethro Gideon Beekman (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Pieter Davy Johan Agten (Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to enroll a first user in a distributed user data management system is received by a processing device of a first user data management server. The request comprises an identifier of the first user. The first server is associated with a first region. An anonymous representation of the first user is determined based at least on the identifie...