ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,488, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to UNICOM SYSTEMS INC. (Mission Hills, Calif.).

"Distributed data system with document management and access control" was invented by Bret Savage (Mission Hills, Calif.), Casey Marshall (Mission Hills, Calif.), Geoffrey Stutchman (Mission Hills, Calif.), Ross Eltherington (Mission Hills, Calif.), Steve Owens (Mission Hills, Calif.) and George Northup (Mission Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data management systems and methods include a cloud-based platform coupled to a system of agents or folders hosted on client devices. The platform does not store actual data but instead makes use o...