US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Privacy data management in distributed computing systems" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,425, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Privacy data management in distributed computing systems" was invented by Michael Emanuel Mainer (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems, devices, and associated methods of privacy data management in a distributed computing system are disclosed herein. In one example, a method includes receiving a request from a data consumer for privacy information of data stored as digital objects. The digital objects are logically structured according to a data schema defining a property containing a property value representing...