US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for protecting data using a personal data store controlled by the data subject" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,546, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for protecting data using a personal data store controlled by the data subject" was invented by Benjamin Kaplan (Los Angeles), Frankie Lamar Jr. (New York), Radhika Ravindranath (South Plainfield, N.J.), Dev Narendrabhai Patel (Gujarat, India) and Jacques Mouton (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device, a request to provide an entity with access to data associated with a user. A reference to location of the data within a data store controlled by the user and an access key associated...