US Patent Issued to Google on March 4 for "Preventing data manipulation and protecting user privacy in determining accurate location event measurements" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,606, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to generating location event measurements. In one aspect, a method includes presenting, by a client device, a digital component comprising geofence data that defines one or more physical locations corresponding to the digital component. In response to presenting the digital component, a trusted program of t...