US Patent Issued to 6SENSE INSIGHTS on Sept. 23 for "Mapping entities to accounts for de-anonymization of online activity" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,036, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to 6SENSE INSIGHTS INC. (San Francisco).

"Mapping entities to accounts for de-anonymization of online activity" was invented by Chihi Tai (Mountain View, Calif.), Daniel Lo (San Francisco), Tai Vo (Orange, Calif.), Yulia Tyutina (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Kenneth Golonka (San Francisco) and Viral Bajaria (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Internet generally provides anonymity to the online activities of visitors to web sites and other online resources. This prevents the operators of web sites and others from identifying visitors who do not wish to be identified. Accordingly, em...