US Patent Issued to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES on March 25 for "Privacy preserving application personalization" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,002, issued on March 25, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Privacy preserving application personalization" was invented by Robert David James Trafford (Pease Pottage, Great Britain), Fraser George Stewart (Burgess Hill, Great Britain) and Adrianus Johannes van der Meer (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches for providing personalized recommendations in a privacy preserving manner. A request from a provider application is received, the request comprising an anonymized user identifier and a navigation identifier that identifies a locatio...