ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,838, issued on July 8, was assigned to Greenfly Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for secure information storage and delivery" was invented by Shawn David Green (Corona del Mar, Calif.), Daniel Brian Kirschner (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Marshall Raymond Greer III (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group definition is received via a network interface. Communications are transmitted to destinations, the communications comprising an invitation to associate with the a content sharing group. Authentication data associated with users that accept the invention is encrypted. The accepting users are associat...