ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,738, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Concept for sharing data" was invented by Dimitri Torfs (Stuttgart, Germany), Alexandru Serbanati (Stuttgart, Germany) and Michele Minelli (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for sharing data with at least one user, wherein the data is legally owned by a data owner and to be published by a data publisher. The method comprises deriving, by the data owner, a publisher key based on an owner key held by the data owner and providing the publisher key to the data publisher. Further, the method includes deriving, by the...