US Patent Issued to OL Security on April 15 for "Method and system for secure distribution of selected content to be protected on an appliance-specific basis with definable permitted associated usage rights for the selected content" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,896, issued on April 15, was assigned to OL Security LLC (Dover, Del.).

"Method and system for secure distribution of selected content to be protected on an appliance-specific basis with definable permitted associated usage rights for the selected content" was invented by David H. Sitrick (Highland Park, Ill.) and Russell T. Fling (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to data rights management and more particularly to a secured system and methodology and production system and methodology related thereto and to apparatus and methodology for production side systems and are consumer side systems f...