US Patent Issued on June 10 for "Individual data unit and methods and systems for enhancing the security of user data" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,961, issued on June 10.

"Individual data unit and methods and systems for enhancing the security of user data" was invented by Richard Jay Langley (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An individual data unit for enhancing the security of a user data record is provided that includes a processor and a memory configured to store data. The individual data unit is associated with a network and the memory is in communication with the processor. The memory has instructions stored thereon which, when read and executed by the processor cause the individual data unit to perform basic operations only. The basic operations include commu...