US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Privacy-preserving sharing attribution for electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,006, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Privacy-preserving sharing attribution for electronic devices" was invented by Devin O. Clary (San Francisco), Bartosz Ciechanowski (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Glen S. Low (Los Gatos, Calif.), Karthik Sudhir (San Jose, Calif.), Lance T. Parker (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephen M. Lottermoser (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing privacy-preserving social attribution for electronic devices. For example, when information is received from a contact of a user at the user's electronic device, variou...