ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,694, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for managing access to data based on a geographic location requirement" was invented by Michael Demeter (Morrisville, N.C.), William L. Jaeger Jr. (Morrisville, N.C.), Pierre Mouallem (Morrisville, N.C.) and Scott Piper (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing access to data based on a geographic location requirement are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a system includes a first computing device comprising a data storage manager configured to manage access to stored data base...