US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Data provenance tracking service" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,036, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data provenance tracking service" was invented by William James Bliss (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which utilize digital tracking tags attached to data to monitor and/or control the data as it moves between applications and/or computing devices. The digital tracking tag may be embedded in the data (e.g., as a digital watermark) or associated with the data e.g., as metadata. In some examples, the digital tracking tag may include an address ...