ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,251, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sertainty Corp. (Nashville, Tenn.).
"System and methods for using cipher objects to protect data" was invented by Gregory Scott Smith (Madison, Tenn.), Melani Leigh Smith Weed (Franklin, Tenn.), Daniel Michael Fischer (Brentwood, Tenn.) and Elke M. Ridenour (Brentwood, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices configured to build and utilize an intelligent cipher transfer object are provided. The. intelligent cipher transfer object includes a set of participants protected by cloaking patterns. A portable dynamic rule set, which includes executable code for managing acce...