ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,743, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zohar Hod (Haworth, N.J.).

"Method and apparatus for automated digital rights enforcement and management methods" was invented by Zohar Hod (Haworth, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for secure data digital rights processing, distribution, and monetization through the use of Smart Contracts as input to a machine learning module (MLM) to manage and enforce digital rights across multiple ecosystems. One embodiment of the invention includes a digital data rights server configured to communicate with a distributed ledger technology (DLT) or a centralized database (DB). In a...