US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 23 for "Methods and apparatus to control access to user data based on user-specified attributes" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,453, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to control access to user data based on user-specified attributes" was invented by Annie Foong (Aloha, Ore.), Ramya Jayaram Masti (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Georgia Sandoval (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for controlling access to user data are disclosed herein. One such apparatus to control access to user data includes memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to attempt to verify an identity bid associated with a request for access ...