ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,360, issued on June 3, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for data sharing and processing" was invented by David Mellor (Lynnfield, Mass.), Joshua Michel (Malden, Mass.) and Derek Co (Clifton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive, from a requesting account, a selection of one or more data sets that are indicated as sharable and requestor information. The instructions, when executed, also cause the one or more processors to generate a sharing reque...