ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,294, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Verifiable consent for privacy protection" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for updating user consent in a verifiable manner. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request including an attestation token. The attestation token includes a set of data that includes at least a user identifier that uniquely identifies a user of the client device, a token creation time that indicates a time at which the atte...