ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,063, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Data sharing through enhanced advertising" was invented by Edward Dean Gogel (St. Helena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques provide enhanced advertising to facilitate sharing of user information with advertisers. An online service provider can store at least a portion of an advertisement on computer storage. Image data from a presentation of the advertisement can be obtained by the online service provider. The online service provider can verify that the image data corresponds to advertising image data stored on the computer storage. Us...