ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,827, issued on June 2, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).
"Data access control" was invented by Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio), Pooja Krishnaswamy (Cedar Park, Texas), Christopher Russell (San Antonio), Gabriel Carlos Fernandez (San Antonio), Joel S. Hartshorn (Olallla, Wash.) and Thomas Wayne Schwarz Jr. (Helotes, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A corporate information technology (IT) network can protect sensitive data sent to computers located outside of the IT network. For example, a customer of a company may control who can access his or her sensitive personal information by identifyin...