ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,637, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Token-based data authority management" was invented by Timothy Alain Denney (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Alan Chong (Redmond, Wash.) and Max Neal Jensen (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory configured to store a first token that indicates that a first entity has data authority of a first data object. The device also includes one or more processors configured to receive a data authority request from a second entity to transfer the data authority of the first data object to the second entity. The one or more processors ar...