Facebook Assigned Patent

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,934,403) developed by Johnson, Robert Carlton, Palo Alto, CA, Heise, Stephen Charles, Los Altos, CA, and Jia, Yiding, Palo Alto, CA, for a “storage and privacy service.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one embodiment, a storage and privacy system stores and manages information associated with users and ensures and enforces access-control rules specified for the stored information.”

The patent application was filed on August 8, 2016 (15/231,113).