ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,587, issued on June 10, was assigned to Vereign AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Method and a system for securely sharing datasets via glyphs" was invented by Georg Greve (Kusnacht, Switzerland) and Gospodin Bodurov (Burgas, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a method for securely sharing a dataset via a glyph comprising: -splitting said dataset into at least two data subsets using a splitting module, -generating a payload for the glyph using a first data subset from the at least two data subsets, -storing all the at least two data subsets but the first data subset in a key value database with a hash value...