ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,008, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Stylitics Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for blockchain-based tracking and selective access to user data" was invented by Rohan Deuskar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a blockchain cookie token for tracking user data compiled from different merchants on the blockchain, and for providing virtual and physical merchants selective access to the user data via the blockchain. Each blockchain cookie token may be generated for a different user, and may be accessed using a different key. The key may be provided to different network sites. A first set of user data, derived fr...