ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,102, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure sharing of personal data in distributed computing zones" was invented by Leonard William Blunt (Singapore), Kishore Sethumadhavan (Punggol, Singapore), Anju Mehta (New Delhi) and Jimitkumar Parshuram Raval (Hedges Park, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product and computer system to securely share personal data is provided. A processor receives a request to initiate a personal data share between a user and a third-party. A processor retrieves a module from a repository. A processor executes the module...