ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,475, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cryptographically secure request verification" was invented by Gang Wang (Jersey City, N.J.), Sergei Akulich (Seattle), Stephen W. Rupp (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Shreedhar Madhavapeddi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to data security and cryptography. In one aspect, a method includes updating a user interface of a client device to present user interface controls that enable a user to specify data privacy settings that define how entities collect, store, and use data of the user. The data security system receives a request to modi...