ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,881, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LYNX MD LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Privacy firewalls for access control" was invented by Ofir Farchy (Modiin, Israel) and Omer Dror (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for controlling access in privacy firewalls are provided. A request to access a content of an element may be received. The content of the element may include a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may include identifiable information and the second portion may include no identifiable information. A permission record corresponding to the elem...