US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Preventing data manipulation and protecting user privacy in telecommunication network measurements" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,410, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Preventing data manipulation and protecting user privacy in telecommunication network measurements" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Alex Daniel Jacobson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to generating telecommunication network measurements. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, by a client device, a digital component that, when interacted with, initiates a call by the client device to a phone number specified by the digital component. A trusted program stores, in a presentation event data stru...