ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,201, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Data governance and security for digital assests" was invented by Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve data governance and security for digital assets, embodiments apply, based on blockchain based smart contracts, privacy and security policies for a participating heterogeneous digital twin enclosed within predetermined boundaries of a geofence boundary, and apply, based on a hierarchical designation of geofences, hierarchical privacy and security policies to geofences associated with the parti...