ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,684, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Schmidt-Morgan Corp. (Fredericksburg, Texas).

"Method and system for managing distribution of data" was invented by Kristen Schmidt (Fredericksburg, Texas), Luke Schmidt (Fredericksburg, Texas), Rhys Morgan (Crawley, Great Britain) and Scott A. Vanderpoel (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system or computerized method for managing the distribution of data includes initiating a request for data on behalf of a first party to a second party having custody of the data, issuing a tokenized credential representing the first party and a dataset comprising the data, storing the tokenized ...