ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,931, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NUTS HOLDINGS LLC (Glencoe, Ill.).

"Systems and methods providing modular input and/or output repository structures" was invented by Yoon Ho Auh (Glencoe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first protected data storage structure comprising a first secure object may be accessed, and the first secure object may determine at least one second secure object that will operate on the data in the first secure object. The at least one second secure object may be retrieved from a collection of secure objects. The at least one second secure object may be accessed and used to operate on the data in the ...