US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 19 for "Privacy preserving user personalization using noisy ranking" (Washington, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,729, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Privacy preserving user personalization using noisy ranking" was invented by Erik Daniel Anderson (Redmond, Wash.), Joseph J. Pfeiffer III (Seattle), Denis Xavier Charles (Redmond, Wash.), Aleksandr Rebrikov (Bellevue, Wash.), John Robert Mooring (Bellevue, Wash.), Brandon J. Maslen (Redmond, Wash.), Davis Leland Gilton (Seattle), Sergey Yekhanin (Redmond, Wash.) and Sivakanth Gopi (Skokie, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system that tracks website usage without compromising user privacy. The system aggregates website usag...