US Patent Issued to HERE Global on March 25 for "Method, apparatus, and system for automated purpose limitation and compatibility verification on a data platform" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,985, issued on March 25, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for automated purpose limitation and compatibility verification on a data platform" was invented by Stefano Bennati (Zurich, Switzerland) and Henri Kujala (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for automated purpose limitation and compatibility verification on a data platform. The approach, for example, involves generating metadata that indicates a purpose that has been allowed for processing a dataset. The approach also involves storing the metadata in a metadata catalog to associate the purpose...