ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,260, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Aggregating encrypted network values" 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 determining network measurements. In some respects, a method includes receiving, by a first aggregation server and from each of multiple client devices, encrypted impression data. A second aggregation server received from each of at least a portion of the multiple client devices, conversion data that includes, for each conversion recorded by the client device, ...