ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,685, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Smarter Contracts Ltd. (London).
"Consent management" was invented by Wayne Lloyd (London), James Radley (London), Neelam Patel (London) and Ben Sheedy (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for a first party to control permission for access to first party information to a second party while preserving privacy, the method comprising the following steps taken by the first party at first party computing apparatus: establishing with the second party a set of information classes for first party information to be provided to the second party and establ...