ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,336, issued on April 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Privacy-preserving virtual email system" was invented by Karin Hennessy (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jeremy Joshua Phillips (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for creating and using virtual email addresses for user privacy protection and data security are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device and at an identity server, login credentials for a first email address mapped to a first set of user information values, detecting, by th...