ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,731, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FLEUR DE LIS. S.A. (Pembroke, Bermuda).

"Systems and methods for context-based permissioning of personally identifiable information" was invented by Stuart H. Lacey (Paget, Bermuda), Naresh Singhal (Fremont, Calif.) and Douglas Cheline (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, including establishing a plurality of context profiles for a user; detecting an event associated with a request for personal information of the user; generating a request for consent to share the personal information of the user with a third party; sending, to the user, the request for consent...