ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,998, issued on June 24, was assigned to Demand PAT LLC (New Hyde Park, N.Y.).

"System and method for anonymizing consumer purchasing search anonymization" was invented by Joseph Fedele (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), Harpreet GeeKee (Oakville, Canada), Richard Oh (New York) and Gordon Kessler (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for implementing user purchasing while remaining anonymous. The method includes receiving information from a potential user by an onboarding system including one or more wants, needs, and desires for attaching the user to one or more communities with similar wants, needs, and desires, ...