US Patent Issued to Bytedance on Sept. 23 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for consumer tracking" (Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,716, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for consumer tracking" was invented by Jiaqi Guo (Chicago), Michael Elizarov (Sammamish, Wash.), Jim Breen (Chicago) and Selvam Velmurugan (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for consumer monitor and tracking. An example method may include receiving client device ID and client device profile data, comparing client device ID and client device profile data to a plurality of known client device versions, generating an updated known clien...