ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,973, issued on April 1, was assigned to Rhinogram Inc. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

"Automated consent management systems and methods for using same" was invented by Keith Dressler (Ooltewah, Tenn.), Stanley Dressler (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Shannon Hastings (London, Ohio) and Kathy Ford (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments can be used to automate the acquisition and management of user consents for one or more campaigns, thus reducing the possibility of unintended violations of consent requirements as compared with existing systems. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, each user consent may be a...