ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,995, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ResMed Inc. (San Diego).

"Data consent storage and management system and method" was invented by Benjamin Peter Johnston (Sydney), Jamie Graeme Wehbeh (Bella Vista, Australia) and Paul Anthony Green (Bella Vista, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for managing consent to share data from a user device. In some examples, the system stores user identifiers referenced to the user's individual consent preferences. The consent preferences may include data types, data generating devices to which the user consents, types of third parties the user consents to shar...