ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,872, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"System and method for notifying users about publicly available data" was invented by Krzysztof Jasinski (Cracow, Poland), Pawel Stys (Cracow, Poland), Lukasz Osuch (Psczyna, Poland), Przemyslaw Krzystanek (Cracow, Poland) and Pawel Wilkosz (Wisniowa, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of notifying users about publicly available data. In operation, an authorization server receives a request from a user to access a data item. The authorization server then determines a restriction status assigned to the data item. When the restriction status indicat...