US Patent Issued to The Prudential Insurance Company of America on June 3 for "System for improving data security" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,527, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Prudential Insurance Co. of America (Newark, N.J.).

"System for improving data security" was invented by Venkatesh Sarvottamrao Apsingekar (San Jose, Calif.), Sahil Vinod Motadoo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher John Schille (San Jose, Calif.) and James Francis Lavine (Corte Madera, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system allows a user to store his personally identifiable information (PII) on a personal device. When a third party wants to access the user's PII (e.g., to update the PII or to retrieve the PII), a notification will be presented to the user on the personal device seeking c...