US Patent Issued to Carnegie Mellon University on Dec. 30 for "Implementing a privacy infrastructure for the internet of things" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,409, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Implementing a privacy infrastructure for the internet of things" was invented by Norman Sadeh (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet of Things (IoT) resource remotely senses data about a user. A computing device of the user comprises a personal privacy app ("PPA") that: receives data about the IoT resource, wherein the data about the IoT resource comprises available user-specific privacy requests related to data practices of the IoT resource; communicates a privacy request for the user with respect to the IoT resource, wherein the priva...