ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,962, issued on June 10, was assigned to ANAGOG LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Privacy preserving location tracking" was invented by Igor Pechersky (Karney Shomron, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus and a computer program for tracking location of users without disclosing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The method comprises analyzing sequences of location events of a user over time to determine a Point Of Interest (POI) of the user. In response to determining that the POI is PII-revealing POI; obfuscating the POI, by generating a pseudolocation identifier of the POI indicative of a semantic meaning ther...