US Patent Issued to Block on June 3 for "Authorized views for privacy preservation" (California, Oregon, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,497, issued on June 3, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Authorized views for privacy preservation" was invented by Cameron Hotchkies (Portland, Ore.), Dino Dai Zovi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Matthew Capers (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein include providing personal data of users of a payment service to a data service when such users have granted sharing permissions. Then, a query may be configured to determine which of the users are eligible for a promotion from a third party service. The query may be sent to a data service and a query result may be received from the data service based...