ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,509, issued on July 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for selecting content based on linked devices" was invented by Jianjun Qiu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a data processing system comprising one or more processors. The processor(s) are configured to identify one or more linking factors to determine that a first computing device is linked to a second computing device, with a certain probability, where the second computing device is proximate to the first computing device. The processor(s) are further configured to link the first computing device with the second...