ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,164, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preventing fraud in aggregated network measurements" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Marcel M. Moti Yung (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for preventing fraud. In some aspects, a method includes: receiving, from multiple client devices, a measurement data element that includes a respective group member key and a group identifier for a given conversion as a result of displaying a digital component. Each client device uses a threshold encryption scheme to generate, based at least on net...