ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,533, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lattice Industries Inc. (Greenville, Del.).

"Method and system for data security and verification" was invented by Krishna Prasad Koganti (Cupertino, Calif.), Kevin Siegel (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jennifer Mary Schmitz (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes transmitting a first encrypted data contract and an encrypted token to a data consumer computer, which decrypts the first encrypted data contract with a private key to obtain a data contract, encrypts the data contract with a public key to create a second encrypted data contract, and transmits it and the encrypte...