US Patent Issued to Optum on July 1 for "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for data rights tracking" (Connecticut, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,474, issued on July 1, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Methods, apparatuses, and systems for data rights tracking" was invented by Daniel L. Binkley (Burlington, Conn.) and Lisa A. Hodne (Buffalo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses embodied herein control and track access to secured data independent of the asset storing the secured data. In this regard, some embodiments organize volumes including one or more datasets and attach one or more assets to each volume. Some embodiments further receive data permissions of use information, for example from a data steward device, for the volu...