ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,740, issued on Jan. 13.
"Predictive targeting, analytics and modeling of users and audiences" was invented by Jonathan Brian Vanasco (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Profile Information is aggregated from online websites and services to correlate discovered identities to one another via computational analysis of Intra-Personal Relationships, Inter-Personal Relationships, and Profile Data. The information, relationships and content of identities which have been determined to share Intra-Personal relationships are aggregated into Meta-Profiles; the Meta-Profiles are used in place of component Intra-Related identities to optimiz...