ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,648, issued on June 10, was assigned to Branch Metrics Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"On-device functionality using remote system updates" was invented by Eric Glover (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rishi Khaitan (San Francisco), Antonio Garcia-Martinez (Redwood City, Calif.), Colin Nathan Behr (San Francisco) and Alexander Austin (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device includes a local service module application and an advertising application. The user device receives, at the advertising application, advertisement data from an application-specific server associated with the advertising application. The advertisement data in...