ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,385, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UIPCO LLC (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for sharing user data" was invented by Oscar Guerra (San Antonio), Megan Sarah Jennings (San Antonio), Dustin Bowen Bitter (Lehi, Utah), Pooja Krishnaswamy (McKinney, Texas), Donald Nathaniel Holloway III (San Antonio) and Nikhil Dama (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data sharing system may facilitate sharing of data with third party systems. In one example, a data sharing request from a third party system is accepted or denied based on previously shared user data with the third party system. The data sharing request can be identified as...