US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on July 1 for "Protecting against an estimated level of online tracking" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,922, issued on July 1, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Protecting against an estimated level of online tracking" was invented by Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France) and Petros Efstathopoulos (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting against an estimated level of online tracking are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include collecting data relating to a plurality of known users. This first data may include browser histories and a level of online tracking for each known user. The known users may be organized into clusters and second data relating to an unknown user may ...