ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,991, issued on May 20, was assigned to tZERO IP LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Federated personally identifiable information (PII) service" was invented by Trent Norman Larson (Bountiful, Utah), Eric Nathaniel Fish (Salt Lake City) and Andrew Warner (Midvale, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes: server; client; broker-dealer database(s) storing personally identifiable information for accounts; and distributed ledger. Server receives request to obtain the personally identifiable information (PII) regarding public information for first account from first user of client. Server determines that a database of the datab...