ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,373, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NUVOLO TECHNOLOGIES Corp. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Document protection mechanism" was invented by Kristiyan Nikolov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Atanas Dimitrov (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Vladimir Paskov (Sofia, Bulgaria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for secure document sharing. The method includes receiving, from a server system, metadata associated with a document stored by the server system. The document includes protected data. A user input including a request to access the document stored by the server system is received. The user input is processed to val...