ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,579, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Access and authentication process for distributed, self-sovereign content sharing" was invented by Gianluca Filitz (Potsdam, Germany) and Frank Feinbube (Potsdam, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for data sharing. An example method includes receiving, at a first instance of a data sharing server and from a first user device of a first user, a request to grant access to a second user to a first file stored at a first data host connected to the first instance of the data sharing se...