ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,303, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).
"System and method for processing erasure requests" was invented by Steven Scott (Ottawa), Jason White (Ottawa) and Reid Van Melle (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing erasure requests are provided, namely requests from users to have their user data erased from a system. The system maintains user data in multiple components which may not be in communication with each other. With the provided system, certain entities, referred to herein as erasure control entities, are informed of details of received erasure requests, and are given the ...