ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,933, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ketch Kloud Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data processing permits system with keys" was invented by Yacov Salomon (Danville, Calif.), Seth Yates (Danville, Calif.), Maxwell Anderson (San Francisco), Vivek Vaidya (San Francisco), Anton Winter (San Mateo, Calif.), Samuel Alexander (San Francisco) and Tom Chavez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. Some systems may support data processing permits and cryptographic techniques tying user consent to data handling. By tying user consent to data handling, the systems may comply with d...