US Patent Issued to PORTABLE DATA on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for digitally signed contracts with verifiable credentials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,823, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PORTABLE DATA Corp. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for digitally signed contracts with verifiable credentials" was invented by James Fournier (Nicasio, Calif.) and Victor Grey (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for seamlessly and automatically granting tailored permission for use and transference of internet data between databases with comprehensive consent is described. The method employs a graph language such as JSON-LD to integrate and employ cryptographically signed Information Sharing Agreements (ISAs) between parties. Data is serialized to be easily transferre...