ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,572, issued on May 13, was assigned to IDENTOS Inc. (Toronto).

"Computer-implemented systems for distributed authorization and federated privacy exchange" was invented by Mike Cook (Toronto), Alec Laws (Toronto) and James Carter (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods for authorization are provided. A system for distributed authorization includes a resource server which stores a protected resource of a resource owner and a service provider client device which provides a service which uses the protected resource. The system also includes a federated privacy exchange system configured to provide...