ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,698, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"System and method for data-transfer management" was invented by Eugen Leonhardt (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of securing data transfers includes the steps of defining two or more sets of conditions for executing a data transfer as sequence of user-consent steps in the form of respective smart contracts, receiving a data-transfer request, determining a required security for the data-transfer request, selecting one of the defined sets of conditions according to the determination, r...