ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,485, issued on June 3, was assigned to Konvergence Inc. (Dripping Springs, Texas).

"Methods and systems directed to distributed personal data management" was invented by Dante C. Cullari (Dripping Springs, Texas), Zoltan A. Papp (Austin, Texas) and Viktor Kostadinov (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are a system, method, and computer-readable medium for personal data management. A user device hosts or accesses multiple platforms and data stores that gather and host personal data of a user from various sources. The user device clusters the multiple platforms and data store. Each of the multiple platfo...