ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,796, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems and methods for an automated data broker" was invented by Anthony Crider (Broomfield, Colo.), Gour Kishore Saha (Fremont, Calif.), Rajagopal Sathyamurthi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anurag Singh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pranav Narasimmaraj (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated data broker system is provided. The automated data broker system serves as an intermediary system between input user data including user interactions with various types of services (for example, a video streaming platform, online retail shopping platform, ...