US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on April 8 for "Controlling access to application data" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,493, issued on April 8, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Controlling access to application data" was invented by Sean Michael Quinlan (Duvall, Wash.), Haniff Somani (Mercer Island, Wash.), Sanjiv Maurya (Fremont, Calif.), Peter Barker (Flower Mound, Texas) and Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for controlling access to application data associated with an application configured on a computing device. The method comprises: storing data comprising, for each of a plurality of access levels associated with the...